Unit 2 - Discovery and Settlement

2. ship with a steering rudder and triangular sails, allowed sailors to sail against the wind
3. person born in Spain’s American colonies to Spanish parents
4. a person of mixed Spanish and African heritage
10. person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony
13. rule by lords who owe loyalty to a monarch
14. agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony, signed by Pilgrims before they landed at Plymouth
16. a person of mixed Spanish and Indian heritage
17. device that shows which direction is North, allowed sailors to sail in a straight line
19. French word meaning “rebirth”; burst of learning in Europe from the late 1300s to about 1600
20. instrument to measure the positions of stars and figure out latitude
22. a water route through North America
24. representative assembly in England
25. town in the Spanish colonies

1. large estate farmed by many workers
3. legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
5. right given by Spanish government to Spanish settlers to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans
6. Spanish word for conqueror
7. king or queen
8. movement to reform the Catholic Church in the 1500s; led to creation of many different Christian churches
9. document that guaranteed rights to English nobles
11. world-wide exchange of goods and ideas that began with Columbus’s voyages to the Americas
12. group of people who move to a new land and are ruled by the government of their native land
15. ocean trip from Africa to the Americans in which thousands of enslaved Africans died
18. religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars
21. peasants who worked for a lord and could not leave without the lord’s permission
23. fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies