Topic 2

Question 1

A Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain

Answer 1

Conquistador

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Peninsular

Question 3

A town in the Spanish colonies; a village or town of the Anasazi or other American Indian groups in the American Southwest

Answer 3

Pueblo

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Creole

Question 5

A fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish Colonies

Answer 5

Presidio

Question 6

In Spain’s American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background

Answer 6

Mestizo

Question 7

A religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars; a settlement that aims to spread a religion into a new world

Answer 7

Mission

Question 8

A waterway through or around North America

Answer 8

Northwest Passage

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Representative Government

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Coureurs de Bois

Question 11

An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another

Answer 11

Alliance

Question 12

A 1676 revolt of Virginia Colonists against the colony’s government.

Answer 12

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 13

A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

Answer 13

Charter

Question 14

A representative to the colonial Virginia government

Answer 14

Burgess

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Pilgrim

Question 16

A group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 16

Puritans

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Persecution

Question 18

The elective representative assembly of the Massechusetts Bay Colony

Answer 18

General Court

Question 19

The willingness to let others practice

Answer 19

Religeous tolerance

Question 20

A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony

Answer 20

Mayflower compact

Question 21

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

Answer 21

town meeting

Question 22

an English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment

Answer 22

proprietary colony

Question 23

Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people

Answer 23

quaker

Question 24

German-speaking Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania

Answer 24

Pennsylvania Dutch

Question 26

a crop sold for money at market

Answer 26

cash crop

Question 27

a 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians

Answer 27

Act of Tolerance

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Slave code

Question 29

a plant used to make a valuable blue dye

Answer 29

Indigo

Question 30

the belief that one race is superior to another

Answer 30

Racism

Question 31

a person who cannot pay money he or she owes

Answer 31

Debtor

Question 32

the highest social class in the English colonies

Answer 32

Gentry

Question 33

a person who learns a trade or craft from a master

Answer 33

Apprentice

Question 34

in the English colonies, a class that included skilled craft workers, farmers, and some tradespeople

Answer 34

middle class

Question 35

a school run by women, usually in their own homes

Answer 35

Dame school

Question 37

the movement in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that emphasized the use of reason

Answer 37

enlightenment

Question 38

a religious movement in the English colonies in the mid-1700s, also known as the First Great Awakening

Answer 38

Great Awakening

Question 39

the act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a person's reputation

Answer 39

libel

Question 40

the theory that a nation's economic strength came from selling more than it bought from other nations

Answer 40

Mercantilism

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Legistlature

Question 42

a trade product sent to markets outside a country

Answer 42

export

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Glorious Revelutions

Question 44

trade products brought into a country

Answer 44

import

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Navigation Acts

Question 46

the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution

Answer 46

Bill of Rights

Question 47

a nickname for New Englanders

Answer 47

Yankee

Question 48

a 1689 document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens

Answer 48

English Bill of Rights