unit1history Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
decimate | destroy;kill |
implicate | to be involved with or connected with |
pluralistic | a society where many religious, cultural, and racial grouos co-exist |
assimilate | to take in and incorporate as ones own |
historian | an authority on history |
archeologist | a scientitst who studies past human cultures by looking at the clues they left behind |
anthropologist | a scientist who studies the origins, characteristics and and customs of humankind |
charter | an official document that gives the person the right to establish a colony |
indentured servant | a colonist who gets a free trip to America in exchange for a number of unpaid working years |
headright system | a sytem in which colonists could buy land |
joint-stock company | a business formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share profits and losses |
Toleration Act of 1649 | a law that made restricting the religious rights of a Christian a crime |
Royal Colony | English colonies in North America had their own governments. Each government had power by a charter. The English monarch had ultimate power |
Authority | power, right to rule |
Proprietary Colony |
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