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Exploration
Vocabulary
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New France
Colonization
Vocabulary
The Slave
Trade
Causes of
Exploration
Columbus’s
Voyage
Effects
of
Exploration
Columbian
Exchange
Famous
Explorers
New Spain
The
English
Colonies
New Netherlands
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Feudalism
Manor
Crusades
Astrolabe
Renaissance
Colony
Circumnavigate
Columbian Exchange
Conquistador
Pueblo
Presidio
Mission
13. Peninsulare
14. Creole
15. Mestizo
16. Encomienda
17. Plantation
18. Northwest passage
19. Missionary
20. Alliance
21. Charter
22. House of Burgesses
23. Representative government
24. parliament
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1. Burgess
2. racism
3. Parliament
4. Persecution
5. Proprietary colony
6. Quakers
7. Pennsylvania Dutch
8. Cash crop
9. Mason Dixon Line
10. Debtor
11. Mayflower Compact
12. Thanksgiving
13. Puritans
14. Religious toleration
15. Patroon
16. slave code
17. mercantilism
18. Pilgrims
19. Navigation Acts
20. Yankee
21. triangular trade
22. legislature
24. gentry
25. indentured servant
26. apprentice
27. enlightenment
28. Middle Passage
Feudalism was a system of rule by lords who
ruled their land but owed loyalty and military
service to a monarch (king).
A manor was land ruled by a lord,
including the lord’s castle and the
lands around it.
The Crusades were wars fought between
Christians and Muslims over the holy land
(Jerusalem) between the years 1095-1300.
An astrolabe is a navigational
instrument used to determine latitude
while at sea.
Renaissance is a French word meaning
rebirth in learning. It is the name given to the
time period in Europe between the years
1300 and 1600 in which there was a rebirth in
learning.
A colony is a group of people who settle in a
distant land but are still ruled by the
government of their native land.
Circumnavigate is to travel all the way
around the Earth.
The Columbian Exchange was the trading of
goods and ideas resulting from the encounter
between the peoples of the Eastern and
Western hemisphere.
Conquistador was the name for the Spanish
explorers who claimed lands in the Americas
for Spain.
A Pueblo were towns in the Spanish
Americas that were centers for trade
and farming.
Presidios were forts where soldiers
lived in the Spanish colonies.
A mission was a religious settlement
run by Catholic priests and friar in the
Spanish colonies.
A peninsulare was a person from Spain who
held a position of power in the Spanish
colonies.
A Creole was a person born in Spain’s
American colonies to Spanish parents.
A mestizo was a person of mixed Spanish
and Indian background in the Spanish
colonies.
An encomienda was a land grant given by
the Spanish government to Spanish settlers
that included the right to demand labor or
taxes from Native Americans.
A plantation is a large farm farmed by
many workers.
The Northwest Passage is a natural waterway
through or around North America.
A missionary is a person who tries to spread
certain religious beliefs among a group of
people.
An alliance is an agreement between nations
to aid and protect one another.
A charter is a legal document giving
certain rights to a person or company.
The House of Burgesses was the first
representative government in the English
colonies and was located in colonial Virginia.
A representative government is a political
system in which voters elect representatives
to make laws for them.
A parliament is the representative assembly
in England.
A burgess was a representative to the
colonial Virginia government.
Racism is the belief that one race is superior
to another.
Parliament is the representative assembly in
England. Parliament makes the laws of Great
Britain. Congress, our legislative body, is
modeled after parliament.
Persecution is the mistreatment or
punishment of a group of people because of
their beliefs.
A proprietary colony was a English colony in
which the king gave land to proprietors in
exchange for a yearly payment.
A Quaker was a protestant reformer who
believed in the equality of all people.
Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Dutch were German
speaking Protestants who settled in
Pennsylvania.
A cash crop is a crop sold on the World
market for money.
The Mason-Dixon line was a boundary
between Pennsylvania and Maryland that
divided the Middle Colonies from the
Southern Colonies.
Mason Dixon Line
A debtor is a person who cannot pay
money he or she owes.
The Mayflower Compact was a 1620
agreement for ruling the Plymouth
Colony, signed by Pilgrims before they
landed at Plymouth.
Thanksgiving is the day at the end of the
harvest season set aside by the Pilgrims to
give thanks to god.
The Puritans were a group of English
Protestants who settled the Massachusetts
Bay colony.
Religious toleration is the
willingness to let others practice
their own beliefs.
A patroon was a owner of a huge estate
in the Dutch colonies.
New
Netherlands
(the Dutch)
settled along
the Hudson
River and Long
Island.)
Slave codes were laws that controlled
the lives of enslaved African Americans
and denied them basic rights.
Mercantilism is a the theory that a nation’s
economic strength came from protecting and
increasing its home economy by keeping
strict control over its colonial trade.
In the 1600s, the Pilgrims were English
settlers who sought religious freedom in the
Americas.
Navigation Acts were series of laws passed
by the English parliament in the 1650s
that regulated trade between England and
its colonies.
Yankee was the nickname for New
England merchants who dominated
colonial trade.
Triangular Trade was the colonial trade route
between New England, the West Indies, and
Africa.
A legislature is a group of people who have
the power to make laws.
Gentry was the highest social class in the 13
English colonies.
An indentured servant was a person who
agreed to work without wages for a period of
time in exchange for passage to the colonies.
An apprentice is a person who
learns a trade or craft from a
master.
The Enlightenment was a movement in
Europe in the 1600s and 1700s that stressed
the use of reason.
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Causes of
Exploration
Crusades
Renaissance
Columbus’s
Voyage
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• The crusades led to exploration because
Europeans brought back many devices that could be
used for navigation like the magnetic compass and
the astrolabe.
• They also brought back items like silk and spice.
Trade then start between Europe and the Middle
East.
• At first, trade took place by overland routes, but
eventually European countries sought water routes
to get to places like India.
• In the 1500s, Johannes Gutenberg invented
movable type and the printing press. This
invention led to more books being created.
People were learning more about the world.
• The Renaissance helped start exploration
because for the first time Europeans learned
about different places and cultures from books.
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After Columbus discovered the New
World other countries sent out
explorers to seek routes to the east and
to explorer the New World.
• Christopher Columbus was and Italian sailor who
was hired by the King and Queen of Spain to find a
route to the East Indies.
• Columbus planned to sail west to reach the East
Indies.
• In 1492, Columbus set sail with three ships: the
Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
• A Month later Columbus landed in what now is the
West Indies.
• Columbus explored the West Indies and then sailed
back to Spain with things he found to include:
tobacco, pineapples and pearls.
• The King was impressed with Columbus’s discovery
and financed three other Voyages by Columbus.
• On his second exploration in 1493, Columbus
founded the first Spanish colony in the Americas on
the island he called Hispaniola (modern day
countries of Haiti and Dominican Republic).
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Exploration of the World changed the World forever.
Many of the effects of exploration in the 1400s and
1500s can be still seen today. Exploration led to the
colonization of the New World, introduction of new foods
and cultures to different parts of the World and led to the
destruction of Native American empires in the Americas.
Effects of Exploration are:
1. Columbian Exchange
2. Colonization
3. Changed Native American culture in the Americas
4. Slave trade begins
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• The Columbian Exchange was named after Christopher
Columbus.
• It was the trade network that resulted from his discovery
of the New World.
• For the first time, goods and ideas were traded between
the eastern hemisphere and the western hemisphere.
• New foods were introduced as well as cultures.
• Unfortunately, diseases were introduced to the Native
Americans, which would lead to the death of millions of
Native Americans.
Below is a map of foods and other items introduced from
the Columbian Exchange.
• After explorers claimed regions of the New
World while searching for a Northwest passage,
European began sending settlers to these areas
to start colonies.
• European rulers saw the opportunity to make
much money by starting colonies in the New
World based on the economic theory of
mercantilism.
• Not all the effects of exploration were positive.
• Exploration had a negative impact on Native
Americans.
• In the 1500s, both the Aztec and Inca Empires were
conquered by the Spanish Conquistadors.
• Millions of Native Americans died from diseases
brought over by Europeans.
• As more counties colonized the Americas, Native
Americans were pushed off their land by force and
through treaties.
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After Columbus’s discovery of the New World, many
nations sent out explorers to search for the
Northwest Passage. While exploring for the
Northwest passage, explorers claimed areas in the
New World for the country they were exploring for.
By Country:
• Viking Explorers
• Portuguese Explorers
• English Explorers
• French Explorers
• Spanish Explorers
• Before Columbus explored the New World, Vikings visited
North America.
• Vikings were people from Scandinavia in Northern Europe.
• In 1001, the Viking Leif Ericson reached the Northern part of
North America in what is presently known as New Foundland.
He called the Area Vinland.
• Portugal led the way in Exploration.
Famous Portugal sailors:
• Prince Henry the Navigator
• Bartholomew Dias
• Vasco da Gama
• Prince Henry of Portugal, known as Prince
Henry the Navigator, started a navigation
school in Portugal in the early 1400s.
• Portuguese sailors invented a new kind of
ship called the caravel.
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Samuel de Champlain
Jacques Marquette
Robert de LaSalle
Jacques Cartier
France
Explored the St. Lawrence River.
Explored what is know the St. Lawrence
River and Lake Champlain.
• Jacques Marquette was a French missionary
who set out to reach the Mississippi River in
1673.
• They followed the river for 700 miles before
turning back.
• Explored the entire Mississippi River all the
way down to the Gulf of Mexico.
• He named the region Louisiana after King
Louis XIV.
• John Cabot
• Henry Hudson
England
• John Cabot was an Italian explorer who explored
North America in 1497.
• He explored what is present day New Foundland.
• Henry Hudson sailed for the Netherlands and for
England.
• In 1609, he explored what is know New York harbor and
explored up the Hudson River which is named after him.
• While exploring the Hudson bay for the Northwest
passage, his crew rebelled and sent him adrift in a boat
with his son and seven loyal sailors
• He was never seen again.
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Cortes like other
conquistadors, heard of
wealthy Native American
empires in the New World and
soon set to conquer them.
– In 1519, Cortes, along with 600
soldiers, set out to Mexico to
seek out theses empires.
– Cortes soon found the Aztec
Empire and captured it’s
emperor, Montezuma and the
capital city, Tenochtitlan.
Spain sent Conquistadors to the Americas in the 1500s. These
conquistadors were interested in gold and glory. In their quest
for both, they made Spain very wealthy.
Famous Spanish Explorers:
Hernando Cortes
Juan Ponce de Leon
Francisco Coronado
Hernando de Soto
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Francisco Pizarro
Spain
• He explored the present day country of Florida
searching for the Fountain of Youth in 1513.
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He explored the
what is now the
southwest United
States looking for
the “Seven Cities of
Gold” in 1540.
• He found no such
cities.
• He explored what
is now the
southeast part of
the United States
looking for gold.
• He died along the
Mississippi River
in 1539 not
finding any gold.
• He is the first person given
credit from circumnavigating
the Earth.
• He actually did not sail
around the World.
• In 1519, he began his voyage
with five ships and 250 crew
members.
• He was killed in a battle in the
Philippines in 1522.
• Only one ship and 18
survivors made it back to
Spain
He conquered the Inca Empire in 1532.
• Samuel Champlain founded Port Royal, the first
permanent French settlement in North America in
1605.
• He also built a trading post and called it Quebec.
• Unlike the Spanish, the French profited from fishing,
trapping, and fur trading in the New World.
• French missionaries also came to the New World to
spread Christianity to Native Americans.
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Location
Spanish
Conquistadors
Types of Spanish
Settlements
Treatment of
Native Americans
Spain
Social Class System
• Conquistadors were given authority by the king of
Spain to start settlements in New World as along as
they gave him one fifth of the gold they found.
• Hernando Cortes defeated the Aztecs in 1519.
• Francisco Pizarro defeated the Incas in 1532.
• At first, the king of Spain let the conquistadors govern the
lands they conquered. Conquistadors proved to be poor rulers
and were only interested searching for gold. In 1535, the king
divided the Spanish empire into two regions and appointed a
viceroy to rule each region.
• The Law of Indies stated how the colonies should be organized
and ruled.
• The code provided for three kinds of settlements in New Spain.
They were Presidios, pueblos, and missions.
In the Spanish colonies Native Americans
were forced to work on mines, ranches and
farms.
In the Spanish colonies there was four
social classes.
Peninsulares
Creoles
Mestizos
Native Americans
France
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Location
Economy
Missionaries
New France
Government
Early
Settlements
• New France was located along the St.
Lawrence River and the Great Lakes.
• The economy of New France was based upon
the fur trade.
• They also profited from fishing as well.
• Missionaries usually traveled with fur traders.
• They wanted to teach Native Americans to
Christianity.
• Two Famous missionaries were Jacques Marquette
and Louis Joliet.
• New France was governed very much like New
Spain.
• The king of France ruled New France directly and
appointed a council to make all decisions in New
France.
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Netherlands
How New Netherland
Became New York
Location
Early Settlements
Economy
• Peter Minuit started New Amsterdam in 1626 on
Manhattan Island.
• He bought the Island from Native Americans.
• Other Dutch settlers settled farther up the Hudson
River.
• Both settlements were referred to as New
Netherlands.
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Located along the Hudson River and
Manhattan Island.
• The Dutch who came from the Netherlands to the
New World set up trading posts and profited from
the fur trade.
• The Dutch in New Netherlands and the French in
New France became rivals in the fur trade.
• Both the French and the Dutch made alliances with
Native American groups and fighting followed for
many years.
• By 1664, the English and Dutch were competing for colonies
and trade in the New World.
• England sent its navy to New Netherlands and seized New
Amsterdam.
• Peter Stuyvesant, the governor of New Netherlands at the time,
turned over the colony to England.
• King Charles II then gave the colony to his brother, Duke of
York, to rule.
England
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Location
Social Classes
Reasons for Settlement
Religious Groups
England’s 13
Colonies
The Southern Colonies
Early Settlements
The New England Colonies
The Middle Colonies
• The English thirteen colonies were located
along the east coast of North America.
Gentry
Middle Class
Indentured Servants
Slaves
• The Middle class was below the gentry.
• The Middle class included farmers, skilled
craftsmen, trades people.
• Nearly three quarters of all white colonists
belonged to the middle class.
The first slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619.
There were many reasons why people came
to the English colonies. Some reasons were:
1. Religious freedom
2. Political freedom
3. Economic opportunities
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There were many different religious groups in the
Thirteen colonies.
These groups came to the New World to escape
persecution from their home countries.
Below are a few religious groups who came to the
New World for religious freedom.
1. Puritans
2. Pilgrims
3. Quakers
• The first English colony was tried by Sir Walter
Raleigh on Roanoke Island off the coast of present
day North Carolina.
• In 1587, 117 colonists landed on Roanoke Island.
Within one year, the colonists began to run low on
food and other supplies. Their leader, John White left
the colonists and sailed back to England to get more
supplies. When he returned, the colonists had
disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again.
• Jamestown was the first permanent English
settlement.
• It was established in 1607 with 107 colonists.
• The colony started off disastrous. Many of the
colonists quarreled with one another. Many also died
from diseases. It wasn’t until John Smith took
control and establish strict rules that forced
colonists to work towards the colonies survival.
Under his strict command, the colony rebounded
and survived its early years.
• The success of Jamestown was due largely in part to
Tobacco.
• The colonists of Jamestown learned how to grow
tobacco from Native Americans.
• Colonists began exporting tobacco to England by
1620.
• The Pilgrims established a colony at Plymouth
Massachusetts in 1620.
• They established the colony so they could practice
their religion freely.
• They created the Mayflower Compact in order to
effectively govern the new colony.
• The Pilgrims wanted their own colony because they were
being persecuted against in England.
• The Pilgrims experienced many of the same hardships as
the colonists in Jamestown.
• Nearly half of the 100 settlers died after the first winter.
• The pilgrims then received help from Native Americans
including a Native American called Squanto .
• In the fall the Pilgrims celebrated their good harvest by
giving thanks. This celebration became known as
Thanksgiving, which is celebrated each year as a
national holiday.
John Winthrop
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The Puritans were another religious group who settled in
Massachusetts.
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Unlike the Pilgrims, the Puritans did not separate entirely from the
Church of England.
They wanted to reform the church with simpler forms of worship, like
no organ music and no special clothes worn by the priests.
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In 1629, John Winthrop led 1,000 settlers to the Massachusetts colony
and he became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Under his leadership, the colony grew and by 1640, 15,000 Puritans
traveled from England to the colony. This was called the Great
Migration.
William Penn
• The Quakers were a religious group who believed all
people were equal in God’s eyes. They were against
war and would not serve in the military.
• William Penn, a Quaker, established a colony where
all religions could come and not be persecuted. This
colony was called Pennsylvania.
• Pennsylvania, in Latin, means Penn’s woods in
honor to William Penn.
The New England
Colonies
Religious Groups:
Puritans and Pilgrims
Life in The New
England Colonies
Economy
Education
The New England Colonies consisted of :
1. Massachusetts
2. Connecticut
3. Rhode Island
• The Pilgrims started Plymouth colony in
1620.
• The Puritans started the Massachusetts Bay
colony in 1630.
• Connecticut was founded by Thomas Hooker in
1662.
• He founded the colony because he thought the
Massachusetts colony was too strict religiously.
Roger Williams
• Rhode Island was founded 1636 by Roger Williams.
• Rhode Island became the most religious tolerant
colony of the New England colonies.
The Puritans and Pilgrims were the main
religious groups in the New England
colonies.
• The puritans believed people should take part in government
and social matters. Because of this belief, New England towns
were very tightly knit communities.
• At the center of every village was a common. Located nearby
was a meeting house where the men met to make decisions
concerning the town.
• The Puritans worked every day except on Sundays, the
Sabbath. It was against the law to work or play on the Sabbath.
Puritans believed that to get to heaven one must work hard.
• Because the soil in the New England colonies is very
rocky, colonists learned other ways to make a living.
• Major industries in the New England colonies were:
Lumber
Fishing
Whaling
Ship building
• New Englanders were the most concerned with
education.
• Puritans believed that its was important to know how
to read, so one can read the bible.
• Massachusetts set up the first public schools.
• Each town hired a school teacher who lived with the
townspeople and received payment in the form of
peas and corn, etc..
• School houses were one room buildings with
students of different ages all in one room.
The Middle
Colonies
Religious
groups
Life in the
Middle
Colonies
Economy
Education
The Middle colonies consisted of:
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
• By 1664, the English and Dutch were competing for
colonies and trade in the New World.
• England sent its navy to New Netherlands and seized
New Amsterdam.
• Peter Stuyvesant, the governor of New Netherlands
at the time, turned over the colony to England.
• King Charles II then gave the colony to his brother,
Duke of York, to rule.
• The Quakers were a religious group who believed all people
were equal in God’s eyes. They were against war and would not
serve in the military.
• William Penn, a Quaker, established a colony where all
religions could come and not be persecuted. This colony was
called Pennsylvania.
• Pennsylvania, in Latin, means Penn’s woods, named after
William Penn.
• New Jersey was actually part of New York up until
1664. In that year, the Duke of York decided the
colony of New York was to big to be governed and
gave land to his friends Lord Berkeley and Sir
George Carteret to start a new colony.
• They called it New Jersey after Jersey island in the
English Channel.
• Delaware actually was part of Pennsylvania
prior to 1701. In that year, William Penn
allowed the settlers their to break away and
form their own colony.
• The Middle colonies had many religious
groups.
• The middle colonies were the most tolerant
of different religions.
• The Quakers settled in Pennsylvania.
• The middle colonies had many different religious
and cultural groups.
• They were considered the mixing pot of the Thirteen
colonies.
• Most people made their living by farming.
• Most people were farmers because the land was more fertile
than the New England.
• The major cash crop of the Middle colonies was grain.
• So much grain was exported from the Middle colonies it
became known as the “Breadbasket Colony”.
• The Middle colonies also had made skilled artisans,who lived in
many of the large port cities like Philadelphia and New York.
• In the middle colonies, private schools were
started by churches and individual families.
• Only wealthy families could afford to send
their children off to school.
The Southern
Colonies
Religious
groups
Life in the Southern
Colonies
Economy
Education
The Southern Colonies consisted of:
Virginia
North Carolina and South Carolina
Georgia
Maryland
• The Virginia colony started in 1606 when
King James the I gave land to the Virginia
Company of London.
• The first permanent settlement in Virginia
was Jamestown, which was named after King
James I.
• North Carolina was Established in 1712 and settled
by poor tobacco farmers from Virginia.
• South Carolina was started in 1719.
• Both are named after King George II, the King
England who gave individuals land to start both
colonies.
James Oglethorpe
• Georgia was the last of the English thirteen
colonies.
• James Oglethorpe was the founder of the
colony.
• He founded the colony in 1732.
• He started the colony so debtors could start
a new life.
In 1634, Lord Baltimore started the colony
of Maryland for Catholics.
• Many Catholics settled in the Southern
colonies
• Farming was how people made a living in the
south because of the good climate and soil.
• The plantation system was used in the south.
• Slave codes were used to control slaves.
• Farming was the major industry in the
Southern Colonies.
• Farmers grew many different cash crops in
the South like tobacco, indigo, rice and
cotton.
• Vasco Da Gama found a sea route to Asia by sailing
around the tip of Africa to India in 1497.
• This gave Portugal a route to the far east that other
countries could not use.
• This led to Columbus’s idea to sail west to India to
find an alternate route to the far east.
• In the Southern colonies, there were no
public schools because families were so far
apart.
• Wealthy families sent their children to private
schools or hired tutors to teach their
children.
• Portuguese sailor who sailed along the
Western side of Africa in 1488.
• He was searching for a sea route to Asia.
• He stopped at the tip of southern Africa and
went back to Portugal.
After Columbus discovered the New World,
other countries sent out explorers to seek
routes to the east and to explorer the New
World.
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• The Columbian Exchange was named after
Christopher Columbus.
• It was the trade network that resulted from his
discovery of the New World.
• For the first time, goods and ideas were traded
between the eastern hemisphere and the western
hemisphere.
• New foods were introduced as well as cultures.
• Unfortunately, diseases were introduced to the
Native Americans.
Below is a map of foods and other items introduced
from the Columbian Exchange.
In the Spanish colonies, Native Americans
were forced to work on mines, ranches and
farms.
A mestizo was a person of mixed Spanish
and Indian background in the Spanish
colonies.
A Creole was a person born in Spain’s
American colonies to Spanish parents.
A peninsulare was a person from Spain
who held a position of power in the
Spanish colony.
Gentry was the highest social class in the
13 English colonies.
An indentured servant was a person who
agreed to work without wages for a period
of time in exchange for passage to the
colonies.
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• Christopher Columbus was and Italian sailor who
was hired by the King and Queen of Spain to find a
route to the East Indies.
• Columbus planned to sail west to reach the East
Indies.
• In 1492, Columbus set sail with three ships: the
Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
• A Month later, Columbus landed in what is now the
West Indies.
• Columbus explored the West Indies and then sailed
back to Spain with things he found to include:
tobacco, pineapples and pearls.
• The King was impressed with Columbus’s discovery
and financed three other Voyages by Columbus.
• On his second exploration, in 1493, Columbus
founded the first Spanish colony in the Americas on
the island he called Hispaniola (modern day
countries of Haiti and Dominican Republic).
The Crusades were wars fought between
Christians and Muslims over the holy land
between the years 1095-1300.
Renaissance is a French word meaning rebirth in
learning. It is the name given to the time period in
Europe between the years 1300 and 1600, in which
there was a rebirth in learning.
The Northwest Passage was natural
waterway through or around North America.
This waterway was searched for by many
European explorers and was never found.
Mercantilism is the theory that a nation’s
economic strength came from protecting and
increasing its home economy by keeping
strict control over its colonial trade.
A Pueblo were towns in the Spanish
Americas that were centers for trade and
farming.
Presidios were forts where soldiers lived in
the Spanish colonies.
A mission was a religious settlement run by
Catholic priests and friars in the Spanish
colonies.
The Mayflower Compact was a 1620 agreement for
ruling the Plymouth Colony, signed by Pilgrims before
they landed at Plymouth.
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• The first Africans arrived in the New World in 1619 at
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Jamestown, Virginia.
Many of the early Africans were free men and women.
Approximately 15 black men and 17 black women lived
in Virginia by 1619.
• By the late 1600s, the slavery expanded in the New World.
• In the beginning, plantation owners in the New World used Native
Americans as slaves, but many died from diseases brought by the
Europeans.
• Africans were then used because they were not as likely to be
affected by European diseases.
• By the late 1700, the slave trade started.
• Slave ships began transporting slaves from the West coast of
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Africa to the New World. The slaves were then sold at
auctions. This route across the Atlantic Ocean to the New
World was called the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage
was part of the Triangular trade route that started between
the New World, Europe and Africa.
Roughly 2 to 3 million slaves were brought to the New World
from 1500 to the 1800s.
Approximately 10% of the slaves aboard each slave ship died
from diseases, mistreatment, or suicide.
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• The first Africans arrived in the New World in
1619 at Jamestown, Virginia.
• Many of the early Africans were free men and
women.
• Approximately 15 black men and 17 black women
lived in Virginia by 1619.
• By the late 1600s, the slavery expanded in the New World.
• In the beginning, plantation owners in the New World used Native
•
Americans as slaves, but many died from diseases brought by the
Europeans.
Africans were then used because they were not as likely to be affected by
European diseases.
• By the late 1700, the slave trade started.
• Slave ships began transporting slaves from the West coast of Africa to the New
•
•
World. The slaves were then sold at auctions. This route across the Atlantic Ocean to
the New World was called the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage was part of the
Triangular trade route that started between the New World, Europe and Africa.
Roughly 2 to 3 million slaves were brought to the New World from 1500 to the
1800s.
Approximately 10% of the slaves aboard each slave ship died from diseases,
mistreatment or suicide.
Trading Route that brought
slaves from Africa to the
New World.