Chapter 2 Vocabulary.doc - Shriyansh tripathi Period 2nd...

Shriyansh tripathi
Period – 2 nd
Date – 9/12/18
AP United States History
Unit 1 - Colonial America
Terms
Chapter 2 — “The Planting of English America: 1500—1733,” pp. 25-33
1. Francis Drake - Sir Francis Drake was an
English sea captain, privateer, slave trader,
naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan
era.
2. Walter Raleigh - Sir Walter Raleigh was an
English landed gentleman, writer, poet,
soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer.
3. Spanish Armada - The Spanish Armada was a
Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A
Coruña in late May 1588, under the
command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia,
with the purpose of escorting an army from
Flanders to invade England.
4. enclosure movement - Enclosure was the
legal process in England of consolidating
small landholdings into larger farms.
5. primogeniture - the right of succession
belonging to the firstborn child, especially
the feudal rule by which the whole real
estate of an intestate passed to the eldest
son.
6. joint stock company - a company whose
stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.