Age of Exploration/Colonization Vocabulary

Match the following vocab terms to the correct definition.

• Conquistadors

• Spanish soldiers known for conquering others

• Class Structure

• Someone who travels to a new land to persuade others to believe and practice a particula religion

• Drought

• Long period of time without rain

• Expedition

• Organized journey

• Missionary

• System for ranking people according to power or wealth

Match the following

• Colony

• To sail completely around something

• Epidemic

• Outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many people

• Empire

• Royal Rulers of a country like a king or queen

• Monarchs

• Settlement or area far from the country that rules it

• Circumnavigate

• Group of nations or people ruled by a single group or leader

A movement of people, animals, plants, cultures, and disease between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Led to powerful changes around the world

• Mercantilism

• Encomienda

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

A grant from the Spanish government that was given to a Spanish settler and gave them the right to control local American Indians was called a/an ​ (a)  

• Encomienda
• Puritan
• Mercantilism

Someone who gives money to a business hoping to earn more money in return is called a/an ​ (a)   .

• investor
• Pilgrim
• Puritan
• Indentured Servant

Match the following

• House of Burgesses

• Agreement amongst the Pilgrims on how they would govern themselves

• Mayflower Compact

• Group of Protestants who disagreed with the Church of England and wanted to start a new colony to practice their religion

• Puritans

• Special legislative body that was the first elected representative government in America; in the colony of Virginia

• Northwest Passage

• Shortcut by water across North America to Asia

• Cash Crop

• Raised only for profit and to sell, not for consumption by the farmer who raised it

The business of buying or selling goods is called _____________.

• Economy

• Cash Crops

• Mercantilism

• Commerce

A/An ____________ is someone who agrees to work without pay for someone for a set, specific time period to pay off a debt owed. They may receive clothing, food, shelter or have their way paid to the New World in return.

• Proprietor

• Indentured Servant

• Slave

• Investor

A person who goes on a religious journey and who is also known as a Separatist is called a ____.

• Pilgrim

• Investor

• Missionary

• Conquistador

People chosen and elected by voters to speak and act for them

• Conquistadors

• Missionaries

• Investors

• Representatives