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SLO SS Vocab Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| slash and burn | method of agriculture used by native americans where fires ares set to clear land |
| three sisters | main crops of native americans; squash corn (maize) and pole beans |
| daub and wattle | building material of woven strips of wood covered with straw and mud |
| palisade | a fence or wall constructed for defense |
| shaman | native American leader believed to have influence in the spirit world |
| dugout | native American canoe built from burned and hollowed out tree |
| wig wam | native American house built from bark of a tree and sapplings (small trees) |
| ceremonial crop | a crop such as tobacco used by native americans during religious ceremonies |
| council | native American political structure |
| encomienda | Spanish plantation developed by conquistadors in the new world during the 1600s |
| joint stock company | most early colonies were established by this type of business group in which investors own shares of the company |
| Gullah | the name given to the culture that developed among the enslaved Africans along the Carolina sea islands |
| mercantilism | the name given to the economic policy of keeping a countrys gold at home by exporting more than is imported |
| stono rebellion | the name of the 1739 slave revolt in south Carolina |
| headright | a system designed to attract settlers to the American colonies in which land was provided to anyone who paid for their own passage to the new world |
| indentured servant | in colonial times a poor person who agreed to work four to ten years for someone who paid his or her travel expenses to a colony |
| enumerated list | a list of products that colonial settlers were required to sell only to England |
| salutary neglect | disreguard by the government that has a beneficial effect |
| house of burgesses | established by the London company in 1619 this assembly gave settlers a voice in the Virginia colony |
| persecute | to treat someone poorly or oppress them because of their race, religion or beliefs |
| magna carta | established in 1215 this charter became part of English political life and became the foundation of limited government |
| stamp act | this law was a tax on all printed materials including court documents licenses wills contracts newspapers and playing cards |
| boycott | a refusal to buy goods |
| indirect tax | a tax where the consumer bears the cost of the tax through higher prices |
| Townshend act | a tax on glass paper paint lead and tea |
| tea act | a law that forbid colonist from buying |
| militia | an army of private citizens |
| mobile war | a military strategy designed to wear down an enemy |
| pyrrhic victory | when one side wins a battle but the cost is staggering in terms of men and supplies |
| de facto | a term meaning actually |
| de jure | a term meaning by right according to law |
| treaty of paris | this formally ended the American revolution |
| patriots | fighters who attack an enemy within occupied territory |
| confederation | loose alliance between 13 states |
| shays rebellion | farmers attempt to take an arsenal |
| new jersey plan | plan that included equal representation for each state |
| Virginia plan | plan that included representation for each state based on population |
| great comprise | settled debate over representation us senate=equal house of reps=based on population |
| 3/5ths compromise | slaves would be counted as 3/5's of a person when determining a state's population |
| federalist | a person who supported the US constitution |
| opposition | against the political party currently in power |
| ratify | to approve |
| federalism | power is shared so the national gov't is supreme in some areas and the state gov't in others |
| popular sovereignty | authority of a state belongs to the people who live there |
| XYZ affair | French ask for bribe from US officials |
| cotton gin | machine designed to reduce the number of workers needed on a cotton plantation ( removed seeds) |
| patrollers | people who roamed the roads watching for escaped slaves |
| "positive good" | slave owners claim that slaves were treated better than factory workers in the north |
| sectionalism | loyalty to a particular region or section of he country instead of the nation as a whole |
| the liberator | anti slavery newspaper printed by William Lloyd garrison |
| union | another name for the US |
| nullification | the idea that a state had the right to declare a federal law unconstitutional and void it if it was not in the states best interest |
| Missouri compromise | kept the balance of power in the senate by keeping the number of slave states and free states equal |
| nullifiers | favored states rights |
| unionist | wanted more power for the federal government |
| free soilers | people who did not want to see new slave states enter the union |
| black codes | a series of laws intended to restrict freedom of African americans after emancipation |
| freedmen | former slaves made up the majority of the republican party in SC during reconstruction |
| KKK | social group that became a secret political terrorist organization |
| conservative democrat | southern political party that became symbolic of white supremacy |
| redeemers | "reclaimed" SC from the carpetbaggers scalawags and republicans in 1876 |
| red shirts | followers of Wade Hampton 1876 |
| 13th amendment | ended slavery in the US |
| 14th amendment | gave African americans US citizenship |
| 15th amendment | gave African American men the right to vote |
| congressional reconstruction | called for harshest punishments for confederacy |
| scalawag | white southerner who sided with republicans during reconstruction |
| crop lien | a credit system that was widely used by cotton farmers in the US |
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