| A | B |
|---|
| Indians | Columbus mistaken for Native Americans he found in the Caribbean |
| plantation | Large farming estate where mainly one crop is grown |
| Line of Demarcation | Drawn by Spain and Portugal dividing the Western Hemisphere. Spain kept lands west of the line, Portugal east of it. |
| Hispaniola | One of the four islands of the Greater Antlles in the Caribbean Sea. Site of the first permanent colony in American |
| slavery | Owning people as property |
| Northwest Passage | Rumored link between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It was never found |
| Spanish Armada | Fleet of war ships that invaded England and was defeated, beginning Great Britain's domination of the Atlantic Ocean and eventually North America |
| indentured servants | English colonists to the Americas who agreed to work without pay in exchange for free passage across the Atlantic Ocean and room and board |
| Separatists | Those who left the Church of England in the 1600s to form their own churches. |
| movement | One of the five themes of geography. Decribes a place by its movement of people, goods, and ideas |
| Lost Colony | English colony attempted on Roanoke Island in modern-day North Carolina. All colonists disappeared before organizers retured. |
| religious persecution | being treated unfairly because of one's religious beliefs. |
| Treaty of Paris | 1763 treaty. France ceded most of its North American empire to England |
| place | one of the five themes of geography. Describes a spot on the earth by its physical and human charactieristics |
| location | one of the five themes of geography. Describes a place by its nearness to other places or by its exact latitude and longitude |
| human-environmental interaction | one of the five thems of geography. Decscribes a place in terms of the environment's effect on humans who live ther and how humans affect that environment |
| region | one of the five themes of geography. Describes a place in terms of its shared features that distinguishes it as part of a broad geographical area. |
| relative location | approximate location found by using nearby references |
| absolute location | the unique spot on earth where a particular place is located using coordintes of longitude and latitude. |
| latitude | distance north or south of the Equator, expressed in degrees. |
| longitude | distance east or west of the prime meridian, expressed in degrees |
| prime meridian | line of longitude (0) from which longitude east and west is measured |
