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A road that linked missions from San Diego to San Francisco
El Camino Real
Created by the Spanish king to govern the empire in America
Council of the Indies
Low-ranking Spanish nobles
hidalgos
Spanish army captain who explored South America's west coast
Francisco Pizarro
The northern route through North America to the Pacific Ocean
Northwest Passage
England's first permanent settlement in North America
Jamestown colony
Wanted to purify the Anglican Church of all Catholic elements
Puritans
Pools the money of many investors
Joint-stock company
Representatives in the first general assembly in Virginia
Burgesses
Published an attack on the Church, which started the Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
Puritans who broke away from the Anglican Church
Separatists
Recieved a charter from King Charles to create a colony in New England
Massachusetts Bay Company
Person whose religious beliefs differ from those accepted by the majority
Heretic
Native American man who taught the Pilgrims about their new environment
Squanto
People who owned stock in the Massachusetts Bay Company
Freemen
Opposition to war or violence as means to settle disputes
Pacificism
When Parliament invited King Charles's son, Charles II, to take the throne
Restoration
Began when troops arrested several Puritan leaders in the English Parliament
English Civil War
Wealthy member on Parliament who founded Georgia
James Oglethorpe
Quaker who founded Pennsylvania
William Penn
Led the Spanish troops that conquered Cuba in 1511
Diego Velázquez
In 1608, Samuel de Chaplain founded Quebec, which became the capital of what new colony?
New France
The men who led expeditions to conquer the rest of what is today the country of Mexico and Central America
Conquistadors
The French explorer who discovered and mapped the St. Lawrence River
Jaques Cartier
Led the Spanish march into the Aztec Empire in 1519
Hernán Cortés
Privately owned ships licensed by the government to attack ships of other countries
Privateers
The colony of Maryland resulted from the aspirations of one man, George Calvert, also known as...
Lord Baltimore
Captain John Smith began trading with the local Native Americans called...
Powhatan Confederacy
The English did not try to colonize America for the next _____ years?
80 Years
At the beginning of the 1500s, much of England's land was divided into large ______
Estates