Chapter 4 encounters in the New World

1. Chapter 4 – Social Study Grade 5
Encounters in the Americas

2. Conquistador
• A leader in the Spanish
conquest of America,
Mexico, and Peru in the
16th century.

3. Civil War
• A war between people
of the same country.

4. Grants
• Gift of money.

5. Mainland
• The main part of the
continent.

6. Rumors
• Stories without proof.

7. Claimed
• To take as a rightful
owner.

8. Desertions
• The abandonment
without consent or legal
justification of a
person, post or relation
and associated duties
and obligations.
• Soldiers ran away from
their duties.

9. Missionary
• A person who is sent to
a foreign country to do
religious work such as
to convince people to
join a religion or to help
people who are
sick, poor etc..

10. Colony
• A settlement ruled by
another country

11. Colonist
• People who live in a
colony .
• Settlers

12. Plantation
• Hugh farms.
• A large are of land
especially in a hot part
of the world where
crops (such as cotton)
are grown.

13. Columbian Exchange
• A movement that
people continued to
explore and cross the
Atlantic
Ocean, plant, animals, a
nd people were brought
from one continent to
another.

14. Northwest Passage
• European traders hoped
the water route cutting
through North America
is a much faster way to
reach Asia.

15. Trade Network
• A system of trading
among the American
Indian tribes in eastern
Canada.

16. Agent
• One who is authorized
to act for or in place of
another.
• A representative.

17. Armada
• Fleet of warships.

18. Profit
• Money left over after
everything has been
paid for.

19. Pilgrim
• A person who makes a
journey for a religious
reason.

20. Compact
• An agreement.

21. Mayflower Compact
• An agreement was to
keep orders for all on
board of Mayflower and
it was signed by 41
men.

22. Interpreter
• A person who translates
the words that
someone is speaking
into a different
language.