| Term | Definition |
|---|
| He claimed Florida for Spain and planned the colony of New Spain, naming its capital Mexico City. | Juan Ponce de Leon |
| Hernando Cortez | He led the Spanish Explorers who conquered the Aztecs |
| encomienda | natives working for Spanish for little pay and harsh conditions |
| Mestizo | 1/2 native american and 1/2 peninsular |
| Peninsulares | people who are born in spain and live in America |
| congregaciones | large communities used by Spanish priests to impose the Catholic faith and Spanish culture upon the Natives |
| Conquistadores | conquerors |
| Pope | led a rebellion against the Spanish hat drove them out of New Mexico for 14 years |
| Headright System | anyone who paid their way or someone else's way to America got 50 acres of land |
| Indentured Servent | Imported by large landowners. Landowners paid their passage to America in exchange for years of service. |
| Jamestown main crop | Tabacco |
| 1607 | Jamestown was founded |
| Puritans | church members who wanted to purify or reform the church of england |
| John Wintrop | the first governor of the puritan colony |
| Separatists | puritans who formed independant congregations with their own ministers |
| Roger Williams | an extreme separtists who expressed controversial views against the Puritan ways. |
| Anne Hutchinson | she believed that worshipers needed neither the church or its ministers to interpret the Bible for them |
| Pequot War | the first major conflict that arose in Connecticut in 1637, when the pequot nation decided to take a stand against the colonists |
| King Philips War | using hit and run tactics the Native Americans attacked and burned outlying settlements throughout New England |
| William Penn | established a colony for Quakers that would run on principles of equality, cooperation and religious toleration |
| proprietor | owner of the colony |
| Quakers | believed that God's inner light burned inside everyone. |
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