History Vocab Words ***NEED TO KNOW FOR FINAL!!!***
these are most of the vocab words you have to know for the final. All the vocabulary words except for chapters 7 and 8
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- Clan
- a group of people that live together
- puritans
- member of the Anglican church who wanted to "purify" the church
- Burgesses
- elected representatives to a lawmaking body in the English colonies
- Region
- parts of the earth that share common characteristics
- aqueduct
- channel or pipe for flowing water
- middle passage
- the forced trip between africa and america made by enslaved africans
- slave codes
- laws that denied enslaved africans most of their rights
- triangular trade
- trading route that formed a triangle between west indies, colonial America, Europe, and West Africa
- Plantation
- large farm worked by many laborers
- Longitude
- location east and west of the Prime Meridian measured by imaginary lines called meridians tat are numbered in degrees
- Latitude
- location north or south of the Equator measured by imaginary lines numbered in degrees
- proprietor
- individual who received legal and exclusive right to a colony
- Yankees
- Puritans with out religion. They are hard working and dedicated
- Coordinates/grid address
- degrees of latitude and longitude use to locate places on the earth
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
- the first American constitution or plan of government
- Indigo
- a plant that produces blue dye
- Causeway
- way to get over water
- Navigation
- the science of piloting ships or aircraft
- navigation acts
- laws passed by England to control colonial trade
- Three Sisters
- Corn, Beans, and Squash
- Presidios/Pueblos/Missions
- Spanish fort in the Americas built to protect mission settlements
- Compass Rose
- North, South, East, and West
- Northwest Passage
- water route to Asia through North America sought by European explorers
- Legislature
- a lawmaking body
- Mutiny
- to seize control of a ship from captain and officers
- Isthmus
- a narrow strip of land between two large pieces of land
- Import
- trade brought into a country
- Naval Stores
- products of pine forest used in wooden shipbuilding and maintenance
- gentry
- the highest social class of the american colonies
- Urban
- relating to that within a city
- Relief
- the difference in height between land forms
- indentured servant
- person who agreed to work for a colonial employer for a specified time in exchange for a passage to America
- Immigrants
- person who moves from one place to make a permanent home in another place
- Joint stock company
- forms of business organization
- mercantilism
- power depends on its wealth
- Manor
- a large estate owned by a noble and were protected in exchange for their services
- Mestizos
- a person that is part spanish part indian
- Caravel
- a small ship with a broad brow
- Timberline
- line above which trees don't grow
- artisan
- a person trained in a skill or labor
- adobe
- building material made of earth and straw
- charter
- official document granting the right to settle and trade
- apprentice
- one who is band to a master without pay to learn a craft or trade
- Peninsulares
- a government and church official in Spanish colonial America who had been born in Spain
- Export
- a product from one place that is sold in another
- Maize
- cultivated by people in Central Valley of Mexico. Another word for Corn
- Subsistence farming
- when farmers produce only enough to feed and maintain their families
- Astrolabe
- measures latitude
- Conquistador
- Spanish adventurer in 16th century America
- libel
- the act of publishing harmful statements
- separists
- those who left the anglican church
- Elevation
- how high you are above sea level
- Tribute
- what is payed to the conquered
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- Pueblo
- home built of adobe by Native Americans, or a community of these homes
- Patroon
- landowner in the Dutch colonies who received rent, taxes, and labor from tenant farmers
- Sapa Inca
- head leader of the Inca
- textiles
- cloth and clothing
- Serfs
- peasant in the middle ages who was bound to the land
- Hunter-gatherers
- people that hunted and gathered food
- colony
- settlement made by a parent company
- Creoles
- social classes in new spain
- Rural
- to be outside a city, such as the countryside
- frontier
- a thinly settled area on the outer limits of a colony
- pilgrims
- english settlers seeking religious freedom in the americas
- Age of Exploration
- period in which many explorers sailed the ocean and mapped the world
- Terrace
- leveled off strips of land
- plantation
- large farm worked by many laborers
- Mayflower Compact
- an agreement made by pilgrim leaders that ensured self-government
- Plateau
- a raised, flat piece of land
- Potlatch
- a feast held by wealthy Native Americans of Northwest where gifts were given to community members
- cartographer
- person who makes maps
- tolerance
- the acceptance of different beliefs