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2013 5th grade Chap4
5th chapter 4 Lessons 2, 3, 4
| Key item | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |
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Mrs. Hastings
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