GHSGT Prep Vocab 1
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- House of Burgesses
- 1st representative govt in North America...located in VA...VA Company had to approve any laws passed
- AMU
- Atomic Mass Unit, used to measure masses of subatomic particles
- Headright System
- used by English colonies granting land to the person who purchased passage to the colony from England
- Encomienda
- system in which Spanish government rewarded its governors in the Americas w/ title to land including the natives on it
- Jamestown
- 1st permanent English settlement in the New World
- Mercantilism
- economic philosophy: colonies exist to provide home country with raw materials and a market for manufactured goods
- Mayflower Compact
- 1st governing document of Plymouth Colony, signed by the Pilgrims in November 1620
- Indentured Servants
- people forced into temporary servitude to pay for their passage to N. America (usually 7 years)
- Columbian Exchange
- widespread transfer of goods and disease b/n Western and Easter hemispheres after 1492
- Conquistadores
- Spanish explorers who conquered Native American cultures