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soc stu midterm voca
social studies midterm questions for vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Albany Plan of Union | a proposal by Benjamin Franklin to create a unified government for the British colonies |
| Alliance | an agreement between nations to aid and protect on another |
| Ally | a nation that works for another nation for a common purpose |
| Apprentice | a person who learns a trade or a craft from a person |
| Bacon’s Rebellion | a 1676 revolt of Virginia colonists against the colonies government |
| Bill of Rights | the first 10 amendments to the U.S. constitution |
| Blockade | the shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out |
| Boycott | to refuse to buy or use goods or services |
| Cash Crop | a crop sold for money at a market |
| Charter | a legal document giving rights to a person of company |
| Committee of correspondence | members of this committee wrote letters and pamphlet report-ins to other colonies on events in Massachusetts |
| Conquistador | Spanish conquerors |
| Continental Army | an army established by the Second Continental Congress to fight the British |
| Coureurs de bois | a French colonist who lived in the lands beyond French settlements as a fur trapper |
| Creole | a person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents |
| Debtor | a person who cannot spend the money he or she owns |
| Enlightenment | the movement in Europe in the 1600's and 1700's that emphasized the use of reason |
| Export | a trade product sent to markets outside a country |
| Frontier | a border especially the border of an area of settlement; a line past which land is not settled |
| Guerilla | a fighter who uses hit-and-run attacks |
| Imports | trade products brought into a country |
| Indentured Servant | a person who pledges to work for a master for a period of time until he or she pays off a debt, such as the cost of a voyage to a colony |
| Indigo | a plant used to make valuable blue dye |
| Intolerable Acts | a series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party |
| Loyalist | a colonist who remained loyal to Britain |
| Magna Carta | a document that said the king could not raise taxes without first consulting a great council of nobles and church leaders |
| Mercantilism | the theory that a nations income strength came from selling more than it bought form other nations |
| Mercenary | a solider who fights for pay, often for a foreign country |
| Mestizo | in Spain's American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian back round |
| Militia | an army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency |
| Minutemen | colonial militia volunteers who were prepared to fight at a minutes notice |
| Mission | a settlement run by Catholic priests and friars who's goal was to convert Indians to Christianity |
| Navigation Acts | a series of English laws beginning in the 1650's that regulated trade between England and its colonies |
| Northwest Passage | a waterway through or around North America |
| Patriot | a colonist who favored war against Britain |
| Patroon | the owner of a large estate in a Dutch colony |
| Peninsulare | at the top of Spain's social scale; held the highest jobs in government and the church |
| Petition | a formal written request to someone in authority that is signed by a group of people |
| Pilgrim | an English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americans in the 1600's |
| Plantation | a large estate farmed by many workers |
| Preamble | an introduction to a declaration, constitution, or other official document |
| Precedent | an act or decision that sets an example for others to follow |
| Presidio | a fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies |
| Proclamation of 1763 | a law forbidding British colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Proprietary Colony | an English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment |
| Protestant Reformation | a movement to reform the Roman Catholic Church in the 1500's that led to the creation of many different Christian churches |
| Pueblo | towns in Spanish Americas |
| Quakers | Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people |
| Racism | the belief that one race is superior to another |
| Ratify | to approve |
| Religious Tolerance | the willingness to let others practice their own beliefs |
| Repeal | to cancel, remove from law |
| Representative Government | a political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them |
| Royal Colony | a colony under direct control of the English crown |
| Siege | a military blockade or encirclement of an enemy town or position with the purpose of forcing it to surrender |
| Slave Codes | laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights |
| Stamp Act | a 1765 law that placed new duties on legal documents and taxed newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, and dice |
| Town Meeting | a meeting in colonial New England where settlers discussed and voted on local government matters |
| Townshend Acts | laws passed in 1767 that taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea |
| Traitor | a person who betrays his of her country |
| Unalienable Rights | rights that cannot be taken away |
| Writ of Assistance | a legal document that allowed British custom officers to inspect a ship's cargo without giving a reason |
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