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Engli.Scie.Hist.Heal
English Science History Health tests vocab all in one
Question | Answer |
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founder of England's first American colony | Sir Walter Raleigh |
economic system that European nations used to enrich their treasuries | mercantilism |
first permanent English settlement in North America | Jamestown |
leader of Jamestown colony | John Smith |
headright | land given to one who could pay his/her way to the colonies |
one who worked for a set time without pay in excahnge for a free passage to America | indentured servant |
the Virginia assembly which was the first representative assembly in the American colonies | House of Burgesses |
company founded by a group of investors | joint-stock |
person who puts money into a project to earn a profit | investor |
written contract giving the right to establish a colony | charter |
colony ruled by the king's appointed officials | royal colony |
Puritan leader who became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony | John Winthrop |
document that helped establish the practice of self-government | Mayflower Compact |
English dissenters who wanted to reform the church of England | Puritans |
the movement of tens of thousands of English settlers to New england during the 1630's | Great Migration |
Puritan dissenter who established Rhode Island | Roger Williams |
Puritan dissenter who was banished from Massachusetts | Anne Huchinson |
document that has been called the first written constitution in America | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
group of Protestant dissenters | Quakers |
person who disagrees with an official church | dissenter |
to mistreat | persecute |
acceptance of different opinions | tolerance |
group of people who belong to the same church | congregation |
to force someone to leave a place | banish |
Catholic owner of the colony of Maryland | Lord Baltimore |
attorney of the governor of Maryland | Margaret Brent |
Maryland law that forbade religious persecution | Act of Toleration |
French Protestants | Huguenots |
the founder of Georgia | James Oglethorpe |
colony governed by a single owner, or proprietor | proprietary colony |
high-ranking social group | elite |
variety | diversity |
distinct area of land | region |
flat land along the coast | Tidewater |
Dutch colony that later became New York | New Netherland |
governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland | Peter SStuyvesant |
Quaker founder of Pennsylvania | William Penn |
person rewarded with a large land grant for bringing 50 settlers to New Netherland | patroon |
dried leaves and flowers of the hemp plant, called cannabis sativa | marijuana |
intentionally using drugs in a way that is unhealthy or illegal | drug abuse |
synthetic substances related to the male sex hormones | antibiotic steroid |
partial or total loss of memory | amnesia |
When medicines are taken for long periods of time a drug ______________ may develop | tolerance |
All medicines are ________________ | drugs |
a physician must write an order for a(n) _______________________ medicine | prescription |
__________ medicines do not require a doctor's written order | Over-the-counter (OTC) |
the active chemical ingredient in marijuana | THC |
Ecstacy is a __________ drug | synthetic |
Pot and weed are street names for | Marijuana |
Is the feeling or well-being or elation produced from using naricotics | Euphoria |
Symptoms that occur when a use of a drug is reduced or stopped | Withdrawal |
speed up activity of the brain and spinal cord | stimulants |
stimulate the central nervous system | amphetamines |
slow down normal brain function | CNS depressants |
Hallucinogen abuse can cause this to occur | flashback |
Ecstacy, GHB, and Katamine are examples of | Designer Drugs, Date-Rape Drugs |
Marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco are know as | Gateway Drugs because they often lead to harder drugs |
Increases the body's activity (Cocaine, crack, methamphetamine, amphetamines, nicotine) | Stimulant |
Slow down the body (Achohol, Tranqualizers, Barbiturates, Rohypnol) | Depressants |
Substance that is breathed in to 'Get a high' | Inhalants |
Releaves pain but leaves a person less alert | Narcotics |
Alters your mood, sense of reality, and perceptions | Hallucinogens |
Used to build muscle mass | Steroids |