Chapter 3: Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700 (8/67) -- U.S. History

Chapter 3: Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700 Key Terms - headright system - a system in which parcels of land were granted to settlers who could pay their own way to Virginia - indenture - a labor contract that promised young men, and sometimes women, money and land after they worked for a set period of years - Jesuits - members of the Society of Jesus, an elite Catholic religious order founded in the 1540s to spread Catholicism and to combat the spread of Protestantism - maroon communities - groups of escaped enslaved people who resisted recapture and eked a living from the land - Middle Passage - the perilous, often deadly transatlantic crossing of ships carrying captured Africans from the African coast to the New World - musket - a light, long-barreled European gun - patroonships - large tracts of land and governing rights granted to merchants by the Dutch West India Company in order to encourage colonization - repartimiento - a Spanish colonial system requiring Native American towns to supply workers for the colonizers - Timucua - the native people of Florida, whom the Spanish displaced with the founding of St. Augustine, the first Spanish settlement in North America - wampum - shell beads used in ceremonies and as jewelry and currency