Science Chapter 2

Question 1

Conquistador

Answer 1

A Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain

Question 2

Pueblo

Answer 2

A town in the Spanish colonies; A village or town of the Anasazi or other American Indian groups in the American southwest.

Question 3

Presidio

Answer 3

A fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies

Question 4

Peninsular

Answer 4

A person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony

Question 5

Mission

Answer 5

A religious settlement run by catholic priests and friars; A settlement that aims to spread a religion to a new area.

Question 6

Creole

Answer 6

A person born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents.

Question 7

Mestizo

Answer 7

In Spain’s American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian back round.

Question 8

Northwest Passage

Answer 8

A waterway through or around North America.

Question 9

Corers De Bois

Answer 9

A French colonist who lived in the lands beyond French settlements as a fur trapper.

Question 10

Alliance

Answer 10

An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.

Question 11

Charter

Answer 11

A legal document giving certain rights to a person or colony.

Question 12

Burgess

Answer 12

A representative to the colonial Virginia government.

Question 13

Representative government

Answer 13

A political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.

Question 14

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 14

in 1676 Revolt of Virginia colonists against the colony’s government

Question 15

Pilgrim

Answer 15

An English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas in the 1600s

Question 16

Mayflower compact

Answer 16

A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth compact

Question 17

Puritan

Answer 17

A group of English protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay colony.

Question 18

General Court

Answer 18

The deleted representative assembly of the Massachusetts Bay colony.

Question 19

Religious Tolerance

Answer 19

The willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

Question 20

Town Meeting

Answer 20

The meeting in colonial New England where settlers discussed and voted on local government matters.

Question 21

Proprietary Colony

Answer 21

An English colony in with the King gaveled to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment

Question 22

Royal Colony

Answer 22

A colony under direct control of the English crown.

Question 23

Quacker

Answer 23

Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people

Question 24

Pennsylvania Dutch

Answer 24

German-Speaking protestants who settled in Pennsylvania

Question 25

Cash Crop

Answer 25

A crop sold for money at market

Question 26

Act of Toleration

Answer 26

A 1694 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians

Question 27

Indigo

Answer 27

A plant used to make valuable, blue dye.

Question 28

Debtor

Answer 28

A person who cannot pay money he or she owns

Question 29

Slave Code

Answer 29

Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights.

Question 30

Racism

Answer 30

The belief that one race is superior to another.

Question 31

Gentry

Answer 31

The highness social class in English colonies

Question 32

Middle class

Answer 32

In the English colonies, a class that included skilled craft workers, farmers, and some trade people.

Question 33

Great awakening

Answer 33

A religious movement in the English colonies in the mid 1700s, also known as the first great awakening

Question 34

Apprentice

Answer 34

A person who learns a trade or craft from a master.

Question 35

Dame School

Answer 35

A school run by women, usually in their own homes.

Question 36

Enlightenment

Answer 36

The movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s, that emphasizes the use of reason.

Question 37

Libel

Answer 37

The act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a persons reputation.

Question 38

Mercantilism

Answer 38

The theory that a nations economic strength came from selling more than it bought from the nations.

Question 39

Export

Answer 39

A trade product sent to markets outside of a country

Question 40

Import

Answer 40

Trade products brought into a country

Question 41

Navigation acts

Answer 41

A series of English laws beginning in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies.

Question 42

Yankee

Answer 42

A nickname for New Englanders

Question 43

Triangular trade

Answer 43

The colonial trade route between New England, Africa, and the West Indies

Question 44

Legislator

Answer 44

A group of people, usually elected, who have the power to make laws.

Question 45

Glorious revolution

Answer 45

In 1688, the movement that brought Willian and Mary to the throne of England and strengthened the rights of English citizens

Question 46

Bill of Rights

Answer 46

The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution

Question 47

English Bill of Rights

Answer 47

a 1689 document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens.

Question 48

Gullah

Answer 48

A combination of English and West African languages spoken by African Americans in South Carolina and Georgia.