| A | B |
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| northwest passage | waterway through or around North America to Asia |
| charter | legal document giving rights to a person or company |
| conquistadors | Spanish conquerors like Cortes and Pizarro |
| colony | a group of people who settle in a distant land and are ruled by the the government of their native land |
| encomiendas | the right to to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans living on the land |
| plantations | large estates farmed by many workers |
| charter | a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company |
| presidio | fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies |
| Spanish conquistadors | Cortes conquered the Aztecs, Pizarro conquered the Incas |
| Mayflower Compact | the Pilgrims decided to establish rules for their new settlement at Plymouth; the 41 men who signed it agreed to consult one another about laws for the colony |
| Jamestown | colonists faced starvation, swampy, mosquito-infected land, quarelling among the members of the council until they began growing tobacco |
