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8th History c.4 voca
vocabulary test review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a political movement of the 18th and 19th century which sought to make slavery illegal | Abolitionism |
| a learning assistant to a craft worker who teaches them a trade. | Apprentice |
| a governing body or upper class usually made up of a hereditary nobility | Aristocracy |
| a worker who practices a trade or handicraft | Artisan |
| the standard for representative government | Colonial Assembly |
| larger farms that produce bigger harvests & selling them. | Commercial Farming |
| Run by women in their homes | Dame School |
| A religious philosophy for American intellectuals that attempted to remove the mystery from religious teaching | Deism |
| An established church is a church officially sanctioned and supported by the government of a country | Established Church |
| Selling product abroad (overseas) | Export |
| usually included a piece of land and supplies, including a gun. Black-skinned or white-skinned, they became free | Freedom Dues |
| movement during the 1700s that stressed dependence on God | Great Awakening |
| Buying product from foreign markets, to ship to the US | Import |
| "life, liberty, and estate (or property)", fundamental rights could not be surrendered in the social contract | Inalienable Rights |
| an individual who contracts to work for a colonist for a specified | Indentured Servant |
| a place for various Merchants and Craftspeople to display and sell their wares | Markets |
| the theory that as a nation's trade grows,it's gold reserves increase and the nation becomes more powerful. | Mercantilism |
| the inhumane part of the triangular trade, shipping enslved Africans to the West Indies was known as.. | Middle Passage |
| bosses hired by plantation owners to keep the slaves working hard. | Overseers |
| another name for the spoils system, in which government jobsor favors are given out to political allies and friends | Patronage |
| german immigrants in the middle colonies, considered the best farmer in America | Pennsylvania Dutch |
| Region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic coastal plain | Piedmont |
| Owners of the large plantations, served as judges and political leaders of the south | Planter Gentry |
| a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region | Pioneer |
| education mandated for or offered to the children of the general public by the government | Public Education |
| being resaonable, sane, sensible. Using reasoning to solve problems. | Rationalism |
| avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws which allowed the enforcement of trade relations laws to be lenient | Salutary Neglect |
| strict rules that governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans. | Slave Codes |
| the belief that the state only exists to serve the will of the people, and they are the source of all political power enjoyed by the state. They can choose to give or withhold this power. | Social Contract |
| The process by which people move between different social layers such as social classes or economic groups | Social Mobility |
| farmers generally produced just enough to meet the needs of their families, with little left over to sell or exchange | Subsistence Farming |
| extra amounts of a crop | Surplus |
| Taxes on imports & exports/taxes on foreign imported goods | Tariffs/Custom Duties |
| a region of flat, low-lying plains along the seacoast. | Tidewater |
| a three-way trade route that exchanged goods between the American colonies and two other trading partners | Triangular Trade |
| the physical growth of rural or natural land into urban areas,cities or towns. | Urbanization |
| a judicial requirement that laws may not treat individuals unfairly, arbitrarily, or unreasonably, and that courts must follow proper procedures and rules when trying cases | Due Process of Law |
| Passed by Parliment between 1651 and 1673, these laws directed the flow of goods between England and the colonies. | Navigational Acts |
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