S.S. Vocab
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- pueblo
- home or community of homes built by Native Americans
- revenue
- incoming money
- propaganda
- ideas or information designed and spread to influence opinion
- subsistence farming
- farming which only enough food to feed one's family is produced
- constitution
- a formal plan of government
- diversity
- variety or difference
- Pilgrim
- Separatists who journeyed to the cololnies durind the 1600s for a religous purpose
- archaeology
- the study of ancient peoples
- literacy
- the ability to read and write
- burgesses
- elected representatives ta an assembly
- pacifist
- person opposed to the use of war or violence to settles disputes
- export
- a good sold abroad
- neutral
- taking no side in a conflict
- ratify
- to give offical approval to
- hieroglyphics
- an acient form of writing using symbols and pictures to represent words, sounds, and concepts
- boycott
- to refuse to but items from a particular country
- compromise
- agreement between two or more sides in which each side gives up some of what it want
- mercantilism
- the theory that a state's or nation's power depended on its wealth
- writs of assistance
- legal document that enabled officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled
- Tidewater
- a region of flat, low-lying plains along the seacoast
- overseer
- person who supervises a large operation or its workers
- federalism
- the sharing of power between fedral and state governments
- Separatists
- protestants who, during the 1600s, wanted to leave the Anglican Church in order to found their own churches
- Iroquois Confederacy
- a powerful group of Native Americans in the eastern part of the United States made up of five nations: the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida
- Patriot
- American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won
- Northwest Passage
- water route to Asia through North America sought European exploreres
- bicameral
- consisting of two houses, or chambers, especially in a legislature
- Enlightment
- movement during the 1700s that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, ans science could improve society
- judical branch
- the branch of government, including the fedral court system, that interprets the nation's laws
- minutemen
- companies of civilian soldiers who boasted that they were ready to fight on a minutes notice
- blockade
- cut off any area by means of troops or warshipsto stop supplies or people from coming in or going out; to close off a country's ports
- federation
- a type of government that links different groups together
- viceroy
- person who rules a country or province as the represenative of the monarch
- triangular trade
- a trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa
- preamble
- the introduction to a formal document, ecpecially the constitution
- apperntice
- assisant who is assigned to learn the trade of a skilled craftsmen
- speculator
- person who risks money in order to make a large profit
- conquistador
- Spanish explorer in the Americas in the 1500s
- mission
- religious settlement
- carbon dating
- a scientific method used to determine the age of an artifact
- marcantillism
- the theory that a state's or nation's power depended on its wealth
- artifact
- an item left behind by early people that represnets their culture
- culture
- a way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs
- ordinance
- a law or regulation
- mercenary
- paid soldier who serves in the army of a foriegn country
- guerrilla warfare
- a hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war
- import
- a good bought from foriegn markets
- Puritan
- protestants who, during the 1600s, wanted to reform the Anglican Church
- privateer
- armes private ship
- militia
- a group of civilians trained to fight in emergancies
- deserter
- soldier who runs away from battle or war
- charter colony
- colony established by a group of settelers who had been given a formal document allowing them to settle
- resolution
- a formal expression of opinion
- civilization
- a highly developed culture, usually with orgainized religons and laws
- Renaissance
- a period of intellectual and artistic creativity, c. 1300-1600
- mosque
- a Muslim house of worship
- debtor
- person or country that owes money
- amendmant
- an addition to a formal document such as the Constitution
- depreciate
- to fall in value
- propotional
- to be the same as or corrasponding to
- checks and balances
- the system in which each branch of government has a check on the other two branches so that no branch becomes to powerful
- petition
- a formal request
- repeal
- to cancel and act or law
- backcountry
- a region of hills and forests west of the tidewater
- persecute
- to treate someone harshly because of that person's beliefs or practices
- executive branch
- the branch of government, headed by the president, that carries out the nation's laws and policies
- indentured servant
- laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America
- legislative branch
- the branch of government that make's the nation's laws
- Ice Age
- a period of extremely cold temperatures when part of the planet's surface was covered with a massive sheet of ice sheets
- effigy
- rag figure representing an unpopular individual
- proprietary colony
- colony run by individuals or groups to whom land was granted
- nomad
- people who move from place to place, usually in search of food or grazing land
- recruit
- to enlist soilders in the army
- strait
- a narrow passageway connecting two larger bodies of water
- smuggling
- trading illegally with other nations
- republic
- a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives
- charter
- a document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area
- Loyalist
- american colonists who remained loyal to Britian and opposed the was for independence
- depression
- a period of low economic activity and widespread unemployment
- inflation
- a continous rise in the rise of goods and services
- cash crop
- farm crop raised to be sold for money