1. European Settlement and Exploration Vocabulary
Standards & 8-1.3

2. Caravels
Ships designed to sail the high seas during the colonial period.

3. Amerigo Vespucci
An Italian merchant who first sailed to the New World in A German map maker named the areas he charted, America for his first name.

4. Mercantilism
The economic system used in Europe and the Colonies. Taxes on imports. Insured profits on staple goods.

5. Huguenots
French protestants. Occupied Charlesfort in present day Parris Island, South Carolina.

6. Protestants
Those in the Christian religion that protested the Catholic faith.

7. Santa Elena
Spanish Settlement, 1557 Established near present day Parris Island, South Carolina.
Abandoned in Founded by Menendez.

8. Conquistadores
Spanish explorers that came after Columbus.

9. De Ayllon
Founder of the settlement at Georgetown, South Carolina. Winyah Bay area
The Settlement was called Gauldape.

10. San Miguel de Gauldape Spanish explorer-
Settled 1st Settlement at Georgetown and the Winyah Bay area by the Spanish named Gauldape.

11. Colony
Settlement ruled by a distant country

12. quitrent
The tax or fee attached to a grant of land. Usually charged by the King to the Lords and then passed on to the settler.

13. Charlesfort Fort in modern day Parris Island, SC
First settled by the French (Explorer Jean Ribault in 1562) and the Spanish (Explorer Santa Elena 1566)

14. San Felipe Spanish version of Charlesfort
Only inhabited for 10 years before abandoning

15. Spanish Florida Spanish settlement on what is now Parris Island, SC
Capital: Santa Elena

16. Charles Town British settle & first permanent settlement in SC
Tense relations with Natives

17. Cash Crop- agriculture crop grown to sell
Dissenter- a person who disagrees
Tolerance- the ability to tolerate something that you do not necessarily agree with
Exile- being removed from one’s county

18. Indentured Servant- labor system where people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years
Subsistence Farming- self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families
Crop Garden- harvested crops and vegetables grown in one area

19. Protestant Reformation
an attempt to reform the Catholic Church; ends up splitting from the church

20. Hernando de Soto
Spanish explorer who led an expedition to explore the Southeast.
Discovered the Mississippi River
Died on his expedition and was drowned in the river.

21. Encominendas
Large Spanish estates (later plantations) that used Native Americans for slave labor

22. Headright: land provided to anyone who paid their own passage or the passage of others to the settlement
Persecute: to treat someone poorly or oppress them because of their race, religion, or beliefs

23. Refuge: a safe place or shelter
Debtors: one who owes a sum of money
Indentured servant: in colonial times, a poor person who agreed to work, for a period of four to ten years, for someone who paid his or her travel expenses to a colony