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U.S. History Ch. 2
Spain Claims an Empire
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| conquistador | Spanish soldier that explored the Americas and claimed land for Spain |
| Hernando Cortes | conquistador who brought the Aztecs to ruin |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who look for a faster water route to Asia |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | 1494 treaty in which Spain and Portugal agreed to divide lands of the Western hemisphere between them and moved the Line of Demarcation to the west |
| mercantilism | economic system that increased money in a country's treasury by creating a favorable balance of trade |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian sailor who explored what is not the Americas |
| Francisco Pizzarro | conquistador who defeated the Inca |
| missionary | person sent by the Church to convert Native Americans to Christianity |
| alliance | people or nations involved in a pact or treaty |
| Henry Hudson | English explorer who sailed for the Dutch and landed at the coast of present-day New York |
| John Cabot | Italian sailor who sailed for the English and is believed to have landed in Newfoundland, Canada |
| Giovanni da Verrazzano | Italian sailor who sailed for the French with the hopes of finding an all-water route to Asia |
| Jacques Cartier | French sailor who sailed up the St. Lawrence River to present-day Montreal |
| Spanish Armada | large fleet of ships sent to invade England and restore Catholicism |
| Samuel de Champlain | founder of a fur-trading post at Quebec |
| New France | first permanent French colony in North America |
| New Netherland | first permanent Dutch colony in North America |
| galleon | sailing ship |
| encomienda | grant of Native American slave labor |
| hacienda | large farm or estate |
| mission | settlement created by the Spanish church in order to convert Native Americans to Christianity |
| Bartolomé de Las Casas | Spaniard who fought for Native American rights |
| Columbian Exchange | transfer of plants, animals and diseases between the Western and Eastern hemispheres |
| plantation | large farm that raises cash crops |
| export | to send abroad for trade or sale |
| slavery | practice of one person being owned by another |
| middle passage | middle leg of the triangular trade route that brought captured Africans to the Americas to serve as slaves |
| slave codes | law passed to regulate the treatment of slaves |
| racism | belief that some people are inferior because of their race |
| maroon | runaway or fugitive slave |
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