| A | B |
|---|
| indentured servants | people who signed a contract to work a set # of days to pay for their passage to the New World |
| encomienda system | Spain gave landowners the right to force natives in the Americas to work for them |
| viceroys | royal representatives sent by Spain to rule New Spain & Peru |
| tenant farmers | worked a fixed number of days on the land in New France |
| trading post empire | places set up in N. America as trade outposts; Empire of Fish & Furs |
| charters | written agreements promising rights & freedoms enjoyed in England |
| settler colony | colonies where people came to live & start a new life; family run farms |
| representative assembly | place where elected representatives spoke for the people (like Parliament) |
| plantation colony | places where large farms grew cash crops, run by slaves |
| coureurs de bois | runners of the woods, French fur trappers in N. America |
| armada | fleet of warships sent by the Spanish to invade England |
| caboceers | special African officials appointed by gov'ts to exchange enslaved people w/Europeans |
| abolition | antislavery movement |
| migration | movement of people |
| Triangular Trade | where ships sailed several routes from West Africa to the Americas, to Europe, and back to West Africa for the slave trade |
| cash crops | one or two products grown for a profit |
| Middle Passage | the part of the Triangular Trade where African slaves were shipped to the New World |
| Atlantic Slave Trade | the capture and transport of Africans into bondage in the Americas |
| trading post empire | areas in N. AMerica as trade outposts; run mainly by the French |
