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| A Spainard who traveled to the Americas as an explorer and a conquerer in the 16th century. |
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| A fleet of ships sent in 1588 by Philip II, the Spanish king, to invade England and restore Roman Catholicism. |
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| A large farm that raises cash crops. |
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| The practice of holding a person in bondage for labor. |
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| The forced removal of Africans from their homelands to serve as slave labor in the Americas. |
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| The middle leg of the triangular trade route -- the voyage from Africa to the Americas -- that brought captured Africans into slavery. |
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| The belief that some people are inferior because of their race. |
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| The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Western and Eastern hemispheres. |
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| An economic system in which nations increase their wealth and power by obtaining gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade. |
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