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Unit 1 Test mthac

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Great Awakening a religious movement that went through the colonies in 1730’s and 1740’s
Charter a document giving permission to start a colony
Migration movement of people, animals, or objects from one place to another
Triangular Trade a system which goods and slaves were traded
Columbian Exchange the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa
Encomienda System a system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and converting them to Christianity
Slave codes laws passed in the colonies to control slaves
English Bill of Rights in 1689 this act reduced the powers of the English monarch
Indentured Servants a colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Mercenaries hired foreign soldiers
Quakers society of Friends; Protestant sect founded in 1640s in England whose members believed that salvation was available to all people
Patriots American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War
Bartolome de las Casas Spanish missionary and historian, he became the first ordained Catholic priest in the New World and advocated for the welfare and protection of Native Americans as well as preached against the slavery system.
Plantations a large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit
Middle Passage the slave trade brought millions of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean on this voyage
Loyalists colonists who sided with Britain in the American Revolution; sometimes called Tories
Capital money or property that is used to earn more money
Jamestown the first colony in America; set up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia
Stamp Act of 1765 this act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items
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