Unit 2 Vocabulary

hired by Spain, this ship captain accidentally discovered the Caribbean

• Puritans

• Christopher Columbus

• Pilgrims

• Jamestown

the voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies, and later to North and South America, to be sold as slaves – so called because it was considered the middle leg of the triangular trade

• Jametown

• French and Indian War

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

a grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it

• Mercantilism

• Encomienda

• Jamestown

• Pilgrims

a land controlled by another nation

• Conquistador

• Mestizo

• Joint-Stock Company

• Colony

a group of people who sought freedom from religious persecution in England by founding a colony at Massachusetts Bay in the early 1600s

• Christopher Columbus

• Conquistador

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

an economic situation in which a country sells more goods abroad than it buys from abroad

• Columbian Exchange

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Favorable Balance of Trade

the global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas

• Columbian Exchange

• Mercantilism

• Jamestown

• Middle Passage

a business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the profits

• Capitalism

• Mercantilism

• Joint-Stock Company

• Encomienda

the Spanish soldiers, explorers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Americas in the 16^th century

• Conquistador

• Colony

• Puritans

• Mestizo

first English colony, located on the coast of Virginia

• Pilgrims

• Mestizo

• Jamestown

• Colony