American History Unit 1 Vocab Flashcards
(20 cards)
An instrument used to navigate while sailing by using the stars.
Astrolabe
Spanish explorers in the Americas in the 1500’s
Conquistadors
Resistance to infection or disease
Immunity
A fleet of warships
Armada
A form of Christianity that began in opposition to the Catholic Church
Protestantism
A sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, located along the north coast of North America
Northwest passage
A document granting a group or a person the right to settle a colony.
Charter
A 50 acre grant of land given to colonial settlers that paid their own way to the New World
Headright
Elected representatives that made decisions for colonial British governments
Burgesses
A business in which investors buy stock in return for a share of future profits
Joint-stock company
To mistreat a person or group on the basis of their beliefs
Persecuted
The ability to accept and respect different views or behaviors
Tolerance
A person who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America.
Indentured servants
A detailed written plan for a government; a list of basic laws that support a government.
Constitution
A crop raised for sale in markets.
Cash Crops
A pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas, Africa and Europe.
Triangular Trade
A system in which citizens elect a smaller group to make laws and conduct government on their behalf.
Representative government
An economic theory that a nation’s power depends on its ability to increase wealth by increasing exports and receiving precious metals.
Mercantilism
A group of people that maintain the culture of the first inhabitants of a land.
Indigenous
A land bridge that used to connect northeast Asia with northwest North America.
Beringia
