American History 1 Vocabulary

A colony under the direct control of an english monarch

A person who was contracted to work for another for a limited time period often in return for travel expenses, shelter, and sustenance

Members of a church group that wanted to eliminate all traces of Roman Catholic ritual and traditions in the Church of England

One of the spainaiards who traveled to the americas as an explorer and conqueror in the 16th century

The transatlantic system of trade in which goods and people, including slaves, were exchanged between, africa, england, europe, the west indies, and the colonies of america

The establishment of outlying settlements by a parent country

Beginnging with columbus' first voyage, the transfer of plants, animals, disease, ideas, technology, between the western hemisphere and the eastern hemisphere

The 1494 treaty in which spain and portugal agreed to divide the lands to the western hemisphere between them

A system in which spainish authorities granted colonial landlords the service of native americans as forced laborers

The voyage that brought enslaved africans to the west indies and later to north america

A revival of religous feelings in the american colonies during the 1730's and 1750's

Business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose

An economic system in which nations seek to increase wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver snd by establishing a favorable amount of trade

An english policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations in its colonies' continued economic loyalty

A member of one puritan groups that, denying the possibility for reform withen the church of england, estsblished their own independent congregations