Colonial America Flashcards

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Burgesses

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Representatives elected in the Virginia colony

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Charter

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A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company, granted by a King or Queen

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Colony

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A piece of land controlled by a larger country that is far away

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Columbian Exchange

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The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages

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Encomiendas

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The right to demand taxes or labor from Native Americans living on land

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Ferdinand Magellan

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First Explorer to circumnavigate the globe

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Georgia

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Colony where debtors could go and work to repay their debts

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Holland

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The country the Pilgrims relocated to before arriving in the New World

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House of Burgesses

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First representative government in the Jamestown Colony

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Jamestown

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First permanent English settlement in America