Chapter 2 The Americans

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  1. 3. Protestant group that wanted to completely break away from the Church of England
  2. 4. Spanish system where colonists received land and could demand labor from Native Americans
  3. 5. Spanish explorer and soldier who conquered lands in the Americas
  4. 9. Pueblo religious leader who led a Native American revolt against the Spanish in New Mexico (1680)
  5. 11. Person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry
  6. 13. Founder of Rhode Island; promoted religious freedom and separation of church and state
  7. 14. Puritan leader and first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
  8. 15. Short for Massachusetts Bay Colony, a major Puritan settlement founded in 1630
  9. 16. English Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England
  10. 17. Spanish explorer who discovered Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth
  11. 18. Leader of the Jamestown colony who helped it survive through strict discipline and trade with Natives
  12. 19. Spanish colony in North America, founded after Cortés’s conquest of Mexico
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  1. 1. Puritan woman banished from Massachusetts for challenging church leaders
  2. 2. English colony in New England, home to Puritans and key to early American history
  3. 6. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico (1519–1521)
  4. 7. First permanent English settlement in North America (founded 1607 in Virginia)
  5. 8. Native American chief who led a powerful confederation near Jamestown
  6. 10. Businesses where investors pooled money to fund colonies and share profits
  7. 12. Area explored and colonized by the Spanish in the American Southwest
  8. 16. Conflict (1636–1637) between New England colonists and the Pequot tribe, ending in Pequot defeat