| A | B |
|---|
| Line of Demarcation | established by a treaty between Portugal and Spain |
| John Smith | Englishman who said "no work, no food" |
| Aztecs | Native American empire defeated by the Spanish |
| merchantilism | British economic policy toward its colonies during the colonial period |
| Europeans who fought int he Crusades | 1) to free the Holy Land from Muslem Control; 2) brought back new ideas and new products; 3) helped create the Renaissance |
| religious freedom | reason Pilgrims came to New England |
| Georgia Colony | set up as a place for debtors to start over and to act as a buffer to the Spanish in Florida |
| anarchy | greatest fear in the U.S. after independence was declared |
| furs | French were interested in |
| Planters | men in the South who controlled Southern life |
| Stamp tax | example of a direct tax |
| financial problems | main problem England faced after the French and Indian War |
| Middle Passage | trip the black slaves made from Africa to the New World |
| 1776 | year we declared independence |
| Mayflower | ship the Pilgrims arrived on |
| Loyalists | colonists who did not want the colonies to separate from Great Britain |
| William Penn and Roger Williams | colonial leaders who represented the idea of religious toleration |
| Lord Baltimore | started the Maryland colony for Catholics |
| divine right of kings | government theory that taught that rulers: 1) were chosen by God to rule; 2) held absolute power and control; 3) were responsible only to God for their actions |
| Beringia | the way the "first Americans came to america |
| slave codes | set up strict rules for slave behavior |
| Crispus Attucks | black colonist killed in the Boston Massacre |
| Thomas Paine | wrote "Common Sense" |
| Magellan | led the first expedition to sail around the world |
| Declaration of Independence | 1) reasons for separating from Great Britain; 2) an outline of a new theory of government; 3) a declaration of war |
