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| A 16th century religious,political and cultural shift, that broke up Catholic Europe. |
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| A colony that mysteriously vanished |
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| A ship that Spain used for an English invasion, the Armada sailed into the English Channel. Smaller and more maneuverable English fleet badly damaged the Spanish ships. Their defeat signified the beginning of the decline of the Spanish Empire |
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| Laws stating that the eldest and only eldest sons were able to inherit land estates. |
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| Enabled a number of investors to pool their money together, mainly to finance journeys to the New World |
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| A written grant by a countries sovereign power by which a company or or other institution is created and exists under limitations set by the king. |
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| An English settlement established in Virginia on May 24, 1607 |
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| A war between the English settlers of Jamestown and the Powhatan Indians that began when Lord De La Warr presented orders from the Virginia Company that amounted to declaring war against the Indians. |
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| Second Anglo- Powhatan War |
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| The final, desperate attempt by the Indians to be rid of the English led to this war, won by the English. Indians were banished from their ancestral lands. |
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| Law passed in Maryland in 1649 guaranteeing religious toleration to all Christians |
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| Denied most fundamental rights to slaves and gave masters complete control over their laborers |
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| A person who unlawfully occupies an unused land. |
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| A war fought between the Tuscarora Indians and North Carolinians in which the Indians were defeated and sold into slavery. |
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| Indians wuho were part of a Muskhogean language group who were forced out of what is now Northern Florida by the Spanish and later forced out by the South Carolinians after a war broke out between the two. |
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| A zone providing incompatible things from coming into contact with each other. |
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| Military and political confederacy that bound five Indian nations together in what is now New York state. Also Tuscarora Indians are the sixth Nation after the ordeal with the North Carolinians |
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