JT 7th Grade SS Midterm

narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water

• strait

• Gentry

• Libel

• Duty

to travel all the way around

• Repeal

• Circumnavigate

• Middle Class

• Cede

large estate farmed by many workers

• charter

• petition

• plantation

• pilgrim

religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars; settlement that aims to spread a religion in a new area

• Monopoly

• Divine Right

• Pueblo

• mission

land granted to Spanish settlers that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans

• Alliance

• Encomienda

• Strait

• Legislature

economic policy that held that a nation prospered by exporting more goods to foreign nations than it imported from them

• mercantilism

• militia

• blockade

• capitalism

two groups joining forces

• Mercanart

• Petition

• Dame School

• alliance

official document that gives certain rights to an individual or a group

• Monopoly

• Backcountry

• Charter

• Racism

person who takes a religious journey

• pilgrim

• Bill of Rights

• mission

• Preamble

political system in which voters elect others to make laws

• Strait

• representative government

• Separation of Powers

• Presisdo