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conquistador
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one of the Spaniards who traveled to the Americas as an explorer and conqueror in the 16th century
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encomienda
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a system in which spanish authorities granted colonial landlords the service of Native Americans as forced laborers
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mestizo
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of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry
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joint-stock companies
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businesses in which investors pull their wealth for a common purpose
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Powhatan
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a group of Native American peoples that lived in eastern Virginia at the time of the first English settlements there
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headright system
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the Virginia Company's policy of granting 50 acres of land to each settler and to each family member who accompanied him
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indentured servant
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a person who has contracted to work for another for a limited time period, often in return for travel expenses, shelter and sustenance
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royal colony
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a colony under the direct control of the English monarch
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Puritans
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members of a group that wanted to eliminate all traces of Roman Catholic rituals and traditions in the Church of England
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Separatist
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a member of one of the Puritan groups that, denying the possability of reform within the Church of England, established their own independent congregations
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Pequot War
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a 1637 conflict in which the Pequot nation battled Connecticut colonists and their Narrangansett allies
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King Philip's War
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a conflict, in the years 1675-1676, between New England colonists and Native American groups allied undered the leadership of the Wampanoag chief Metacom
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proprietor
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an owner - particularly one granted ownership of, and full governing rights over, certain of the English colonies in North America
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Quakers
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members of the Society of Friends, a religious group persecuted for its beliefs in 17th-century England
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