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Topic 5 lesson 1-7
Social Studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Framers | A person who draws up and produces something such as a constitution |
| Veto | To prevent the passage of a law |
| Judiciary | The branch of government that resolves legal disputes and hands out justice |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that the U.S. had the right and duty to expand to the Pacific Ocean |
| Dispute | To engage in argument |
| Negotiate | To reach an agreement through compromise |
| Cession | The granting of land by one country to another |
| Permanent School Fund | A fund that provides money for public schools |
| Popular Sovereignty | Allowing states to decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery |
| Proslavery | Slave states |
| Antislavery | Nonslave states |
| Exiled | To be forced to leave the country |
| Cattle Rustler | A person who steals cattle |
| Land Grant System | A method of land distribution in which a person is issued a certificate for land,hires a surveyor to mark off a plot of land, and pays the surveyor with part of the land |
| Emigrate | To leave one country or region and move to another |
| Upper South | The U.S. region that includes the states of Kentucky,Tennessee,Virginia,Maryland,and North Carolina |
| Lower South | The region of the U.S. that includes the states of South Carolina,Georgia,Alabama,Mississippi,Arkansas,and Louisiana |
| Manumission | The freeing of slaves |
| Empresarios | The Spanish word for ''contractor,'' a person who puts together business deals |
| States' Rights | The idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government |
| Resistance | An effort to stop something |
| secede | Withdraw |
| abolitionist | A person who wanted to end slavery |
| Nullification | Each state had the right to nullify,or reject,national laws |
| sectionalism | Loyalty to one's section or region instead of to the country as a whole |
| Tariff | A tax on an imported good |
| Vigilantes | People who take the law into their own hands |
| Arsenals | Storehouses for weapons |
| Regiments | A military unit made up of smaller groups of soldiers |
| Unionists | People loyal to the Union during the American Civil War |
| Desertions | When someone leaves a post without permission and with no intention of returning |
| Supremacy | A supreme authority and power |
| John White | An English artist and early pioneer of English to settle North America |
| Powhatan | Paramount chief of the Tsenacommach tribe |
| Indentured Servant | Men and women who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years |
| John Winthrop | English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachussets Bay colony |
| Squanto | Member of the Patuex tribe of New England |
| Puritans | Member of a group of English protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries |
| Pilgrim | A person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons |
| Agriculture | The cultivation and breeding of animals and plants to provide food |
| Industry | The production of goods or related services within an economy |
| Textile | A type of cloth or woven fabric |
| Charter Colony | One of the three classes of colonial government established in the 17th century English colonies |
| Royal Colony | A colony ruled or administered by officials appointed by and responsible to the reigning sovereign of the parent state |
| Proprietary Colony | A type of British colony mostly in North America and the Carribean in the 17th century |
| Economic | Relating to economics or economy |
| Mercantilism | Belief in the benefits of profitable trading;Commercialism |
| Religious Freedom | The right to choose a religion(or no religion) without interferance by the government |
| Representative Government | A type of democracy founded in the principle of elected officials,representing a group of people,as opposed to direct democracy |
| Mayflower Compact | The first governing document of Plymouth Colony.It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower,consisting of separatists,Puritans,Adventurers,and Tradesmen |
| House of Burgess | The first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America |
| Quakers | Members of a historically Christian group of religious movements,formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church |
| Thomas Hooker | A Prominend Puritan colonial leader,who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts.He was known as an outstanding speaker and an advocate of universal Christian Sufferage |
| Roger Williams | A Puritan Minister,English Reformed Theologian,and Reformed Baptist who founded the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence plantations |
| John Wheelwright | A Puritan clergyman in England and America,and was most noted for being banished from the Massachusetts Colony for subsequently establishing the town of Exeter,New Hampshire |
| William Penn | An English real estate Entrepreneuar,Philosopher,Early Quaker,and founder of the English Colony of Province of Pennsylvania |
| James Oglethorpe | A British soldier,Member of Parliament,and a Philanthropist,as well as the founder of the Colony of Georgia |
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