practice of one person being owned by another - slavery, middle leg of the triangular trade route that brought captured Africans to the Americas to serve as slaves - middle passage, law passed to regulate the treatment of slaves - slave code, belief that some people are inferior because of their race - racism, runaway or fugitive slave - maroons, people of Spanish descent who were born in the colonies. - creoles, are people of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry. - mestizos, The people with the least power and fewest rights were - Africans and Native Americans, was a grant of forced Native American labor. - encomienda, usually became large farms where Native Americans worked to grow cash crops, such as coffee and cotton. - hacienda, economic system that European nations used to enrich their treasuries - mercantilism, first permanent English settlement in North America - Jamestown, land grant given to one who could pay his or her way to the colonies - headright, one who worked for a set time without pay in exchange for a free passage to America - indentured servant, the Virginia assembly, which was the first representative assembly in the American colonies - House of Burgesses, company funded by a group of investors - joint- stock, person who puts money into a project to earn a profit - investor, written contract giving the right to establish a colony - charter, colony ruled by the king’s appointed officials - royal colony, Spanish people who went to the colonies to rule and settle by order of the Emperor. They are above the creoles in the social structure. - peninsulares,

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