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Great Awakening | A religious movement that became widespread in the American Colonies in the 1730’s and 1740’s. |
Migration | The movement of people from one region to another. |
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. |
Indentured Servants | A colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years. |
Slave Codes | Laws passed in the colonies to control slaves. |
English Bill of Rights | A shift of political power from the British Monarchy to Parliament. |
Mercenaries | Hired Foreigners needed to serve in the Army. |
Quakers | A Society founded by members who sought 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 | A Spanish ruler who was an allie with the Colonists. |
Plantations | A large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit. |
Middle Passage | A voyage that brought enslaved agricans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies. |
Loyalists | Colonists who sided with Britain in the American Revolution. |
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 | A law passed by Parliament putting duties on all colonial paper products. |
Tea Act | A law passed by Parliament selling low-cost tea to Colonies. |