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2013 5th grade Chap4
5th chapter 4 Lessons 2, 3, 4
Key item | Definition |
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Raw Material | A resource that can be used to make a product. |
Stock | Part ownership in a business. |
Cash Crop | A crop that people grow to sell. |
Profit | The money left over after all costs have been paid. |
Indentured Servant | People who agreed to work for a length of time with no pay. |
Legislature | The lawmaking branch of the government. |
Represent | To speak for. |
Royal Colony | Colony owned by a king. |
Walter Raleigh | Chosen by Queen Elizabeth I to set up a colony in North America. |
John White | Led a group of settlers to Roanoke Island in 1587. |
Roanoke | An island in Virginia. |
John Smith | The leader of Jamestown. |
Pocahontas | Chief Powhatan's daughter who helped bring about a short time of peace between the Native Americans and the colonists. |
John Rolfe | Brought tabacco plants from the West Indies to the colony. |
House of Burgesses | Virginia's legislature |
Pilgrim | A person who makes a journey for religious reasons. |
Compact | An agreement. |
Self-government | The right for the people to govern themselves. |
Majority Rule | If more than half od the people agreed to a law or a decision, everyone had to follow it. |
William Bradford | Oneof Plymouth's early governors. |
Samoset | Native American who welcomed the englishmen |
Squanto | Tisquantum; taken and sold as a slave to work in Spain. |
Demand | The desire |
Supply | The amount of a good that is offered for sale. |
Ally | Partners. |
Proprietary Colony | A whole colony owned by one person. |
Samuel de Champlain | Founded Quebec as well as the St. Lawrence River. |
Quebec | The first French settlement in North America. |
New Netherland | The first colony settled by the Dutch. |
New Amsterdam | A town set up on the south end of Manhattan Island. |
New Sweden | Colony set up by the Swedish, south of New Netherland. |
Jacques Marquette | Catholic missionary; led small group along with Louis Joliet to find the Mississippi River. |
Louis Joliet | A fur trader; led a small group along with Jacques Marquette to find the Mississippi River. |
Louisiana | State named after King Louis XIV. |
Sieur de la Salle | French explorer (Rene-Robert Cavelier) who set out to find the Mouth of the Mississippi River. |
New Orleans | Louisiana's capital; one of the colony's first towns. |