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30 Cards in this Set
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Conquistador who defeated the Incas
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Pizzarro
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Increased prices for goods and services combinder with reduced value of money
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Inflation
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People who move to another country after leaving their homeland
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Immigrant
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People who disagree with official religious or policital opinions
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Dissenter
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Stories and images designed to support a particular point of view.
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Propaganda
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Official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony
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Charter
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Movement in Europe, begun by Martin Luther, which divided the Christian church into Catholic and Protestant sects
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Protestant Reformation
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Mass migration of thousands of English people to the Americans that took place between 1630 and 1640
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Great Migration
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Colonists who recieved free passage to North America for exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
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Indentured Servants
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Owners of businesses or colonies
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Proprietors
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Protest religion founded in 1640's in England, these people believe that salvation was available to all people
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Quakers
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Founder of the colony established as a haven for Quakers
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William Penn
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A settlement established by a country thta will somehow benefit the mother country
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Colony
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Large farms that specialize in growing one kind of crop
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Plantation
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Settlements established by priests in Spanish America to convert local Indian to Catholicism
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Mission
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Conquistadors who defeated the Aztecs
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Cortes
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Spanish towns in the Americas
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Pueblo
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Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain
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Conquistadors
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A law making group made of two houses
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Bicameral Legislature
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A government meeting that people make decisions at on local issues; usually in New England
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Town Meeting
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Governments getting wealthy by controlling trade
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Mercantilism
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Things bough from other countries
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Imports
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Things sold to other countries
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Exports
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Taxes on imported goods
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Duties
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Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, the West Africa
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Triangular Trade
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The trip that got enslaved Africans and brought them to North America and the West Indies
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Middle Passage
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Agriculture products grown primarily to be sold for profits, not for personal use
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Cash Crops
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Crops that are continuously in demand
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Staple crops
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Laws passed in the colonies to control slaves
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slave codes
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The colonial assembly, or legislative branch, of Virginia. The first in the nation.
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House of Burgess
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