topic 2

Question 1

conquistador

Answer 1

Spanish conquerors

Question 2

pueblo

Answer 2

towns with a public square

Question 3

presido

Answer 3

forts were soldiers lived

Question 4

mission

Answer 4

settlements run by Catholic priests and friars

Question 5

peninsular

Answer 5

people who held the highest jobs in the government and the church

Question 6

creole

Answer 6

people born in the Americas to parents of Spanish origin

Question 7

mestizo

Answer 7

people who worked on farms or ranches owned by peninsulares or creoles

Question 8

northwest passage

Answer 8

waterway through or around
North America

Question 9

coureurs de bois

Answer 9

Runners of the woods

Question 10

alliance

Answer 10

is an agreement between nations to aid and protect each other

Question 11

charter

Answer 11

is a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

Question 12

burgess

Answer 12

representatives to the government

Question 13

representative government

Answer 13

voters elect representatives to make laws for them

Question 14

Bacon’s rebellion

Answer 14

lasted only a short time when bacon died suddenly

Question 15

pilgrim

Answer 15

religious people who traveled long distances for freedom

Question 16

persecution

Answer 16

the mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs

Question 17

Mayflower compact

Answer 17

a 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony

Question 18

Puritan

Answer 18

a group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 19

General Court

Answer 19

the elected representative assembly of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 20

religous tolerance

Answer 20

the willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

Question 21

town meeting

Answer 21

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