Unit 1 Vocabulary

a fleet of warships

• privateers

• monopoly

• armada

• Hispaniola

an armed ship owned and offered by private individuals holding a government commission

• privateer

• armada

• Protestantism

• sanction

having a strong dislike or opposition to something

• Catholicism

• averse

• acquisition

• colonist

the faith, practice, and church order of the Roman Catholic church

• Protestantism

• privateers

• colonization

• Catholicism

connected with the sea

• Pueblo

• coveted

• maritime

• indigenous

an inhabitant of a colony

• colonist

• indigenous

• imperial

• monopoly

a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule

• commissioned

• averse

• Protestantism

• sanction

produced specially to order, especially art

• commissioned

• sanction

• averse

• privateers

the faith, practice, and church order of the Protestant churches

• Catholicism

• privateers

• Protestantism

• colonist

a member of a North American people in the southeastern United States

• imperial

• maritime

• indigenous

• Cherokee