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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.

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a member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian movement founded by George Fox circa 1650 and devoted to peaceful principles.

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a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.

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The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era.

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a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons

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a Spanish-American day laborer or unskilled farm worker.

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These acts were designed to tighten the government's control over trade between England, its colonies, and the rest of the world.

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The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

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Belief in the benefits of profitable trading

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An agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the Mayflower in 1620, just before they landed at Plymouth Rock. The Mayflower Compact bound them to live in a civil society according to their own laws.

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a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money

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Indentured servants were men and women who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter.

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The Great Awakening was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American Protestantism.

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A viceroy is a regal official who runs a country, colony, city, province, or sub-national or state, in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory

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The Treaty of Tordesillas (signed at Tordesillas on June 7, 1494, and authenticated at Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and the Crown of Castile

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The Columbian Exchange was the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage

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The task system is a system of labor under slavery characteristic in the Americas.

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The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in August 1588.

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a person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender.

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the return of a hereditary monarch to a throne, a head of state to government, or a regime to power.

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Religious toleration is when people allow other people to think or practice other religions and beliefs.

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a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.

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The encomienda was a Dependency Relation system, that started in Spain during the Roman Empire, where those with power protected the weakest in exchange for a service.

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is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense.

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Circumnavigation means to travel all the way around the entire planet, or an island, or continent.

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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley