Chapter 3 Vocabulary

A line on a drawing or map that connects all points of equal elevation.

• mutinied

• Northwest Passage

• contour line

• elevation

The height of land in relation to sea level.

• mutinied

• Northwest Passage

• contour line

• elevation

Rebellion against the leader of one's group.

• mutinied

• Northwest Passage

• contour line

• elevation

A waterway in North America thought to connect the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

• mutinied

• Northwest Passage

• contour line

• elevation

A time when the Catholic church banned books and used its courts to punish people who protested Catholic ways.

• missionaries

• counter-reformation

• reformation

• reforms

A religious teacher sent out by its church to spread the religion.

• missionaries

• counter-reformation

• reformation

• reforms

A Christian movement that began in sixteenth-century Europe as an attempt to reform the Catholic Church; resulted in the founding of Protestantism.

• missionaries

• counter-reformation

• reformation

• reforms

To change.

• missionaries

• counter-reformation

• reformation

• reforms

Any of the Spanish conquerors in the Americas during the 1500s.

• grants

• conquistadors

• treaty

• isthmus

A sum of money or other payment given for a particular purpose.

• grants

• conquistadors

• treaty

• isthmus