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Unit 3
Vocabulary from unit 3 - Thirteen colonies part I
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| indentured servants | someone who worked for four to seven years as a servant for the master who paid his or her passage to America |
| patronizing | "condescending" - thinking you are better than someone else |
| estuary | body of water where the mouth of a river meets the sea |
| yeoman | a farmer who cultivated his own small farm |
| massacre | to "kill brutally" and often in large numbers |
| tenet | a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy. |
| martyr | a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs. |
| gallows | a structure, typically of two uprights and a crosspiece, for the hanging of criminals. |
| colony | land controlled by a distant or foreign nation |
| realm | the kingdom or country where a ruler holds sway |
| abiding | permanent or lasting |
| scurvy | a disease resulting from lack of vitamin C. It makes people bleed easily, and causes teeth to fall out |
| tolerance | the practice of tolerating something, in particular differences of opinion or behavior. |
| burgess | a person with municipal authority or privileges, in particular. |
| slave | a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. |
| Pilgrim | a person who makes a journey for religious purposes |
| John Smith | an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, Admiral of New England, and author. He played an important role in the establishment of the Jamestown colony, the first permanent |
| Mayflower | The Mayflower was an English ship that famously transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth, England, to the New World in 1620. |
| Mayflower Compact | an influential document, signed in 1620, that established the rules of Pilgrim society |