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Servidio Review for Chapter 2 and 3 MC/CR Test

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Exploration   To discover new lands  
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Conquistador   A person who wants to conquer land for their own profit  
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Exploit   To take advantage of  
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Inferior   The feeling of being below someone in rank in society  
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Caravel   A fast ship used during exploration  
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Astrolabe   A device used to determine the latitude at sea  
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Compass   A device used to show north at sea  
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Columbian Exchange   The trading of goods and ideas between the New and Old Worlds  
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Missionaries   People who convert others to Christianity  
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Slavery   The taking of a person and forcing them to work for their own profit  
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Kinship network   A close family relationship in the African communities  
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Middle Passage   The passage of slave ships from Africa to the New World so Africans could be sold as slaves  
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Colony   A group of people who settle in a distant land and are ruled by their native government  
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Hernando Cortes   Spanish conquistador who destroyed the Aztec empire by befriending Montezuma  
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Francisco Pizarro   Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca by a surprise attack  
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Laws of the Indies   A code of laws created by Spain to state how the colonies would be ruled  
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Pueblos   Towns or centers of trade and farming in the Spanish colonies  
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Presidios   Forts where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies  
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Missions   Religious settles  
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Encomiendas   The right of the Spanish to demand labor and taxes from the Native Americans  
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Plantations   Large estates of land farmed by many workers, especially slaves  
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Bartolome de Las Casas   Saved Native Americans from harsh conditions and introduced Africans as slaves  
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Samuel de Champlain   Created the first French settlement in the New World  
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Coureurs de bois   Runners of the woods or traders for the French colonies  
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Fur trappers   French and Dutch colonies  
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Mining and plantation farming   Spanish colonies  
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Dutch   New Netherlands  
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Peter Minuit   Led a group of Dutch to Manhattan to establish New Netherland  
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Iroquois   Friends of the Dutch  
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Algonquians   Friends of the French  
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Charter   A legal document giving certain rights to a person of company  
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Roanoke   The first attempt at creating a colony for England  
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Jamestown   The first successful colony of England  
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John Smith   The man that helped save Jamestown by stating “You must work to eat”  
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Reason Jamestown was established   Gold  
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Reason Plymouth was established   Religious freedom  
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Reason Jamestown became successful   Tobacco plantations  
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Parliament   England’s government  
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Representative government   Voters elect people to represent them in government  
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House of Burgesses   Representatives that meet together to make laws for the colony  
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Mayflower Compact   A document of government that established the rules of Plymouth  
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Pilgrims   A group of English settlers that fled for religious freedom  
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Causes of Exploration   Gold, God, Glory, and Navigational Aides  
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Effects of Exploration   Colonies created, Native Americans die of disease, and Africans become slaves  
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Economic Effects of Exploration   The Columbian Exchange or trading of many different goods  
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What was the major reason Native Americans died?   Disease  
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Where were the 13 colonies located?   Along the eastern part of the present day United States  
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Which ocean is the 13 colonies located near?   Atlantic Ocean  
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Who controlled or owned the 13 colonies?   England/British  
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Another name for England is   Britain  
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Name the language the 13 colonists speak?   English  
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