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| Spanish for conquerer, the men who led the expeditions to conquer the Americas (p.52) |
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| fort built by the Spanish in the Americas (p.54) |
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| low-ranking nobles who came to America as conquistadore (p.54) |
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| system of rewarding conquistadors tracts of land, including the right to tax and exact labor from Native Americans (p.54) |
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| men who herded cattle on haciendas (p.55) |
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| the mythical nothern water route through North America to the Pacific Ocean (p.55) |
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| French fur traders who lived among the Native Americans (p.56) |
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| someone who wanted to purify the Angelican Church during the 1500's and 1600's (p.60) |
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| form of buisness organization in which many investors pool funds to raise large amounts of money for large projects (p.61) |
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| privately owned ship licensed by the govenment to attack ships of other countries (p.61) |
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| representatives to the general assembly of the Virginia colony (p.64) |
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| system in which settlers were granted land in exchange for settling in Viginia (p.64) |
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| a colony owned by an individual (p.64) |
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| a Puritan who broke away from the Angelical Church (p.66) |
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| a Separatist who journeyed to the American colonies in the 1600s for religious freedom (p.67) |
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| a dissenter from established church beliefs (p.69) |
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| opposition of war or violence as a means of settling disputes (p.75) |
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