Social Studies Chapter 3

a grant from the Spanish government giving settlers the right to control local Native Americans.

• cash crop

• encomienda

• Mayflower Compact

• commerce

a long period without rain

• Pilgrim

• drought

• representative

• encomienda

the business of buying and selling goods

• commerce

• drought

• Northwest Passage

• missonary

a ruler

• Puritan

• commerce

• monarch

• representative

something raised for sale, not for use by the people who farm it

• class structure

• missionary

• cash crop

• investor

a special law-making body set up in Virginia in 1619

• representative

• Northwest Passage

• House of Burgesses

• cash crop

someone who agrees to work without pay for someone else for a set time

• indentured servant

• Mayflower Compact

• Puritan

• Pilgrim

a person who goes on a religious journey

• investor

• monarch

• Pilgrim

• missionary

the agreement the Pilgrims wrote to say how they would govern themselves

• House of Burgesses

• encomienda

• Mayflower Compact

• drought

a shortcut by water across the North America to Asia

• investor

• missionary

• monarch

• Northwest Passage