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APUSH 2-5 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nationalism | Fervent belief and loyalty given to the political unit of the nation state. |
| Primogeniture | Oldest son inherits all the family property or land. |
| Joint-Stock Companies | An economic arrangement by which a number of investors pool their capital for investment. |
| Charter | Legal document granted by gov. to some group or agency to implement a stated purpose. |
| Census | Official count of population |
| Feudal | Concering the hierarchical, decentralized medieval social system of personal obligations between rulers and ruled. |
| Indentured Servants | Poor person obligated to a fixed term of unpaid labor. |
| Toleration | Originally, religious freedom granted by an established church to a religious minority. |
| Squatter | Frontier farmer who illegally occupied land owned by others. |
| Buffer | Small territory or state between two larger powers |
| Melting Pot | Ethnically diverse population. |
| Predestination | God has determined some people to be saved and some to be damned. |
| Elect | Those who have been chosen by God for salvation. |
| Conversion | A religious turn to God. |
| Visible Saints | Those who publicly proclaimed their experience of conversion and lead godly lives. |
| Calling | the belief that saved individuals have a religious obligation to engage in worldly work. |
| Heresy | Departure from correct or officially defined belief. |
| Seditious | Concerning resistance to or rebellion against the government. |
| Commonwealth | organized civil gov. or social order united for a shared purpose. |
| Autocratic | Absolute or dictatorial rule |
| Passive Resistance | nonviolent action or opposition to authority. |
| Asylum | a place of refuge and security |
| Proprietary | concerning exclusive legal ownership, as of colonies granted to individuals by the monarch. |
| naturalization | the granting of citizenship to foreigners or immigrants. |
| Blue Laws | restrict behavior |
| headright | the right to acquire land granted to a person who pays the passage of a laborer. |
| Disfranchise | to take away the right to vote |
| Indentured Servant | a laborer bound to unpaid service to a master for a fixed term in exchange for freedom dues. |
| Middle Passage | that portion of a slave ship's journey in which slaves were carried form Africa to the Americas. |
| Menial | Fit for servants, humble or low. |
| Militia | Voluntary, non professional armed force of citizens, usually called to military service only in emergencies. |
| Hierarchy | A social group arranged in ranks or classes. |
| Corporation | A private group of institution to which the gov. grants legal rights to carry on certain specified activities. |
| Jeremiad | A sermon recounting wrongdoing, warning of doom, calling for repentance. |
| Lynchin | Illegal execution of an accused person by mod action w/o due process of law. |
| Hinterland | Inland region set back from a port, river, or seacoast. |
| Social Structure | The basic pattern of the distribution of status and wealth in society. |
| Blue blood | Of noble or upper class descent. |
| Sect | Small religious group that has broke away from larger mainstream church. |
| Agitators | people who seek to excite or persuade the public on some issue |
| Stratification | The visible arrangement of society into hierarchical pattern, with distinct social groups layered one on top of the other. |
| Mobility | The capacity to pass readily from one social or economic condition to another. |
| Elite | small, identifiable group at the top of a society or particular institution usually possessing wealth power |
| Almshouse | a home for the poor, supported by charity |
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