In the early years of the Virginia colony a field laborer was most likely to be an indentured servant.
Charg-it was the first official charge card in that it allowed users to withdraw funds directly from their bank account. Almost all cards by MasterCard, Visa, etc. today are credit cards, not charge cards.
American discovered that they could grow their own food because of the native americans who taught them how when they arrived here .
Turbidity. As your book/question states it is a measurement of cloudiness in water.
Assuming that you are referring to the territories of today's Mexico, formerly know as <em>New Spain</em>, here is the paragraph:
As Hernan Cortes campaigned throughout the first continental lands of America, the idea that many Spaniards, probably even himself, harbored was that of founding Spain all over again in the newly found and conquered lands. A mix of nostalgia and pride for the Motherland, Spain, must have prompted the <em>Conquistadors</em> to name the cities and provinces they founded after cities and provinces already existing in Spain. One reason for using already familiar names had to do with the difficulty of pronouncing the original names of the places given by the native people, the other one had to do with a sense of control, since most people hold the belief that naming things bestows them with a degree of control over them. And yet another reason may have been the comfort of living in places named after their old home towns and provinces the Spaniards had come from.
