Social Studies Chapter 3 - Vocabulary - Settling the Colonies

crops that are sold instead of being used by a farmer

• subsistence

• gmo crop

• cash crop

• class system

a system granted from the Spanish government that gives Spanish settlers the right to take land and control local American Indians on that land

• encomienda

• puritan

• missionary

• viceroy

someone who wanted to change the Church of England and came to North America to worship freely in the 1600s

• Anglican

• Pilgrim

• Missionary

• Puritan

a person who is sent to another country to convince others to believe in a particular religion

• puritan

• pilgrim

• missionary

• viceroy

an agreement made by the Pilgrims to govern themselves

• House Of Burgesses

• Royal Charter

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

having a connection to the Church of England

• Pilgrim

• Catholic

• Puritan

• Anglican

a person who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for food, clothing, and shelter, and the promise of land

• indentured servent

• mayflower compact

• representative

• delegate representation

a person elected to act for others

• missionary

• senator

• president

• representative

an area controlled and governed by a king or queen

• monopoly

• cash crop

• royal province

• House of Burgesses

a northern sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans that would shorten the route between Europe and Asia

• Atlantic Byway

• Middle Passage

• Mayflower Compact

• Northwest Passage