Historical Terms and Concepts

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Plantation

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A large Farm

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Presidio

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A fort

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Northwest Passage

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A sea passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans along the north coast of North America

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Mission

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A religious community where farming was carried out and Native Americans were converted to Christianity

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Protestantism

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A form of Christianity that was in opposition to the Catholic Church

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Armada

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A fleet of warships

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Reformation

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A sixteenth century religious movement rejecting or changing some Roman Catholic teaching and practices and establishing Protestant churches

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Pueblo

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A town in Spanish ruled lands

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Tenant Farmer

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A settler that pays rent or provides work to a landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowner's land

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Immunity

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Resistance such as disease