8th Grade- Settlement
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| Frontier | The area just beyond or at the edge of a settled area
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| Democracy | Government by the people
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| Speculator | One who buys something such as land, hoping it will increase in value and when sold, provide a profit
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| Exodus | Departure
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| Denominations | Religious Groups
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| Clergy | Minster or priests
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| Circuit- riding preacher | A clergyman who followed a regular route through an area to preach and attend to other spiritual needs.
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| Discrimination | An action that denies people their rights because of prejudice.
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| Instilled | To put an idea or value into a person's mind little by little.
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| Indentured Servants | People who agreed to work for a period of of years as servants in America in exchange for passage to the New World.
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| Slavery | The practice of owning people as property and forcing those people to work.
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| Blaze | To mark
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| Tomahawk rights | A method of claiming an area of land by using a tomahawk or knife to blaze trees around the boarder of the site.
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| Corn Rights | To get ownership of land by planting and harvesting a crop of corn
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| Girdling | Removing a band of bark all the way around a tree to kill the tree and make it easier to remove
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| Lean-to | a form of shelter where logs were laid against something for support
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| Puncheons | Split logs, often set flat side up to form the floor of a cabin
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| Hominy | Hulled and dried kernels of corn that have been boiled
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| Linsey-woolsey | A mixture of flax and wool or cotton and wool
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| Dialect | regional form of a language
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| Morgan Morgan | First permanent settler in West Virginia
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| Pennsylvania Dutch | Germans who fled because of religious persecution
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| Issac Van Meter | Granted 10,000 acres of land in the Shenandoah Valley from Virginia
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| Joist Hite | A German from New York who acquired land which was transferred to Thomas Shepard
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| Andrew Lewis | A surveyor whose family owned part of the Greenbrier Valley
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| Martinsburg | Where Morgan built a crude log cabin
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| Morgantown | Zackquill Morgan established this town
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