chapter 2 Flashcards
A Spanish explorer who calmed lands in America and Spain
Conquistador
a religious colony run by cathartic priest
mission
an agreement between nations to aid and protect one another
alliance
a 1676 revolt of Virginia colonists against the colony’s government
bacon’s Rebound
a representative to the colonial Virginia government
Burgess
an English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas in the 1600s
piligram
a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
charter
a political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them
representative government
a waterway through or around North America
northwest passage
a town in the Spanish colonies; a village or town of the Anasazi or other Native American groups in the American Southwest
puebo
the mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs
persecution
a 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony
may flower compact
the willingness to let others practice their own beliefs
religious toleranc
a 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians
Act of Toleration
a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
charter
