The Age of Exploration and Colonization

1. The Age of Exploration and Colonization

2. Main Menu Exploration Vocabulary New France Click title to go back to first slide. Colonization Vocabulary The Slave Trade New Spain Causes of Exploration Columbus’s Voyage The English Colonies Famous Explorers Effects of Exploration New Netherlands Columbian Exchange

3. Exploration and Spanish Colonies Vocabulary Click title to go back to main menu 13. Peninsulare 14. Creole 15. Mestizo 16. Encomienda 17. Plantation 18. Northwest passage 19. Missionary 20. Alliance 21. Charter 22. House of Burgesses 23. Representative government 24. parliament • Feudalism • Manor • Crusades • Astrolabe • Renaissance • Colony • Circumnavigate • Columbian Exchange • Conquistador • Pueblo • Presidio • Mission

4. The English Colonies Vocabulary Click title to go back to main menu. 1. Burgess 16. slave code 2. racism 17. mercantilism 3. Parliament 18. Pilgrims 4. Persecution 19. Navigation Acts 5. Proprietary colony 20. Yankee 6. Quakers 21. triangular trade 7. Pennsylvania Dutch 22. legislature 8. Cash crop 24. gentry 9. Mason Dixon Line 25. indentured servant 10. Debtor 26. apprentice 11. Mayflower Compact 27. enlightenment 12. Thanksgiving 28. Middle Passage 13. Puritans 14. Religious toleration 15. Patroon

5. Feudalism Feudalism was a system of rule by lords who ruled their land but owed loyalty and military service to a monarch (king).

6. Manor A manor was land ruled by a lord, including the lord’s castle and the lands around it.

7. Crusades The Crusades were wars fought between Christians and Muslims over the holy land (Jerusalem) between the years 1095-1300. Jerusalem

8. Astrolabe An astrolabe is a navigational instrument used to determine latitude while at sea.

9. Renaissance France Renaissance is a French word meaning rebirth in learning. It is the name given to the time period in Europe between the years 1300 and 1600 in which there was a rebirth in learning.

10. Colony A colony is a group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land.

11. Circumnavigate Circumnavigate is to travel all the way around the Earth.

12. Columbian Exchange The Columbian Exchange was the trading of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the peoples of the Eastern and Western hemisphere. From Europe, Africa, Asia to the Americas: Wheat Sugar Banana horse pig cow goat chicken smallpox typhus From the Americas to Europe, Africa, and Asia: maize potato beans peanut pumpkin pineapple tomato cocoa

13. Conquistador Conquistador was the name for the Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain. New Spain

14. Pueblo A Pueblo were towns in the Spanish Americas that were centers for trade and farming.

15. Presidios Presidios were forts where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies.

16. Missions A mission was a religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friar in the Spanish colonies.

17. Peninsulare A peninsulare was a person from Spain who held a position of power in the Spanish colonies.

18. Creole A Creole was a person born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents.

19. Mestizo A mestizo was a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background in the Spanish colonies.

20. Encomienda An encomienda was a land grant given by the Spanish government to Spanish settlers that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans.

21. Plantation A plantation is a large farm farmed by many workers.

22. Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage is a natural waterway through or around North America.

23. Missionary A missionary is a person who tries to spread certain religious beliefs among a group of people.

24. Alliance An alliance is an agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.

25. Charter A charter is a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company.

26. House of Burgesses The House of Burgesses was the first representative government in the English colonies and was located in colonial Virginia.

27. Representative Government A representative government is a political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.

28. England Parliament A parliament is the representative assembly in England.

29. Burgess A burgess was a representative to the colonial Virginia government.

30. Racism Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another.

31. Parliament Parliament is the representative assembly in England. Parliament makes the laws of Great Britain. Congress, our legislative body, is modeled after parliament. Great Britain

32. Persecution Persecution is the mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs.

33. Proprietary colony A proprietary colony was a English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment.

34. Quakers A Quaker was a protestant reformer who believed in the equality of all people. William Penn Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania

35. Pennsylvania Dutch Germany The Pennsylvania Dutch were German speaking Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania.

36. Cash Crop A cash crop is a crop sold on the World market for money.

37. Mason Dixon Line The Mason-Dixon line was a boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that divided the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies. Mason Dixon Line

38. Debtor A debtor is a person who cannot pay money he or she owes.

39. Mayflower Compact The Mayflower Compact was a 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony, signed by Pilgrims before they landed at Plymouth.

40. Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is the day at the end of the harvest season set aside by the Pilgrims to give thanks to god.

41. Puritans The Puritans were a group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay colony.

42. Religious Toleration Religious toleration is the willingness to let others practice their own beliefs.

43. Patroon A patroon was a owner of a huge estate in the Dutch colonies. Hudson River New Netherlands (the Dutch) settled along the Hudson River and Long Island.)

44. Slave Code Slave codes were laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights.

45. Mercantilism Mercantilism is a the theory that a nation’s economic strength came from protecting and increasing its home economy by keeping strict control over its colonial trade.

46. Pilgrims In the 1600s, the Pilgrims were English settlers who sought religious freedom in the Americas.

47. Navigation Acts Navigation Acts were series of laws passed by the English parliament in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies.

48. Yankee Yankee was the nickname for New England merchants who dominated colonial trade.

49. Triangular Trade Triangular Trade was the colonial trade route between New England, the West Indies, and Africa.

50. Legislature A legislature is a group of people who have the power to make laws.