American Encounters
Terms
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- colonists
- people who live in a colony
- grant
-
gift of money
- compact
- an agreement
- agent
- a person who does business for other people
- Northwest Passage
- a water route that explorers wanted to find so that traders could go through North America to Asia
- profit
- the money left over after everything has been paid for
- rumor
- stories without proof
- Armada
- fleet of war ships
- cival war
- a war between people of the same country.
- colony
- a settlement ruled by another country
- interpreter
- Aperson who translates from one language to another.
- conquistador
- Spanish conquerors in the Americas during the early 1500s.
- trade network
- a system in which trade takes place between certain groups of people.
- claim
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to declare that you or your country owns something
- plantations
- huge farms
- pilgrim
- a person who makes a journey for a religious reason
- Mayflower Compact
- An agreement by those on the Mayflower to make and obey laws for their colony. This was the first self-rule by American Colonists.
- desertion
- running away from duties, such as military duties.
- mainland
- the main part of a continent
- missionary
- a person who teaches his or her religion to others