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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Paleo-Indians | The first people to arrive in North America |
| migration | a movement of people or animals form one region to another |
| hunter-gatherers | people who live by hunting animals and gathering wild plants |
| enviroments | climates and landscapes that surround living things |
| societies | groups that share a culture |
| culture | a group's set of common values and traditions |
| totems | ancestor or animal spirits |
| Iroquois League | a political confederation that was established by the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca nations |
| capital | money or property that is used to earn more money |
| joint-stock companies | businesses in which a group of people invest together |
| Christopher Columbus | |
| Ferdinand Magellan | |
| Northwest Passage | |
| Columbian Exchange | |
| conquistadors | |
| Hernan Cortes | |
| Moctezuma II | |
| Francisco Pizzaro | |
| Junipero Serra | |
| encomienda system | |
| Bartolome de Las Casas | |
| plantations | |
| Protestant Reformation | |
| Protestants | |
| printing press | |
| Spanish Armada | |
| inflation | |
| charter | |
| Jamestown | |
| John Smith | |
| Pocahontas | |
| indentured servants | |
| Bacon's Rebellion | |
| Toleration Act of 1649 | |
| Olaudah Equiano | |
| slave codes | |
| Puritans | |
| Pilgrims | |
| immigrants | |
| Mayflower Compact | |
| Squanto | |
| John Winthrop | |
| Anne Hutchinson | |
| Peter Stuyvesant | |
| Quakers | |
| William Penn | |
| staple crops | |
| town meeting | |
| English Bill of Rights | |
| triangular trade | |
| Middle Passage | |
| Great Awakening | |
| Enlightenment | |
| Pontiac | |
| Samuel Adams | |
| Committees of Correspondence | |
| Stamp Act of 1765 | |
| Boston Massacre | |
| Tea Act | |
| Boston Tea Party | |
| Intolerable Acts | |
| First Continental Congress | |
| minutemen | |
| Redcoats | British soldiers |
| Second Continental Congress | |
| Continental Army | |
| George Washington | |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | |
| Common Sense | |
| Thomas Paine | |
| Thomas Jefferson | |
| Declaration of Independence | |
| Patriots | Those who wanted independence. |
| Loyalists | Those who stayed loyal to Great Britain. |
| mercenaries | |
| Battle of Trenton | |
| Battle of Saratoga | |
| Marquis de Lafayette | |
| Bernardo de Galvez | |
| John Paul Jones | |
| George Rogers Clark | |
| Francis Marion | |
| Comte de Rochambeau | |
| Battle of Yorktown | |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 |