Vocab: Explorers and Americas

A company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders

• Joint Stock Company

• Puritans

• Jamestown

• Quakers

Spanish conquerors of Mexico or Peru during the 16th century

• Conquistador

• Quakers

• Puritans

• Cherokee

The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

• Middle Passage

• Right of Passage

• African Passage

• Moderate Passage

A multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by exports to another

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Mercantilism

• Triangular Trade

Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism

• Captialism

• Mercantilism

• Bartering

• Communism

Belonging to or associated with fromer times especially when quaint and attractive; known as Europe, Asia, and Africa.

• New World

• Old World

• Americas

• Other World

The name of the Americas especially during the time of first exploration

• New World

• Old World

• Other World

• Next World

A person under contract to work for another person for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to the New World

• Indentured Servant

• Endangered Servant

• Indisposed Servant

• Slave

The first government of Plymouth Colony entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower in 1620

• Mayflower Compact

• Rayflower Compact

• Jamestown Compact

• Maryland Compact

A member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th Century who regarded the Reformation as incomplete.

• Puritans

• Catholics

• Pilgrims

• Quakers