PIE Fifth Grade Social Studies: Colonists
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| broker | a person who paid to buy and sell things for someone else
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| presidio | a military fort built for the protection of settlers in the Spanish borderlands
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| militia | a town's voluntary army
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| indentured servant | a person who worked without pay to pay the cost of coming to the Americas
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| mission | a small community of Catholic religious workers in the Spanish colonies
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| auction | a place where slaves were bought and sold
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| debtor | a person who has been in prison for owing money
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| fall line | a place where the land drops sharply, causing rivers to form waterfalls
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| scarce | not plentiful
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| hacienda | a large estate
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| self-sufficient | self-supporting
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| royal colony | a colony ruled by a king or queen
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| portage | the carrying of canoes and supplies around waterfalls and rapids or overland between rivers
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| tributaries | branch rivers
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| proprietary colony | a colony that was owned and ruled by one person who was chosen by a king or queen
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| proprietor | a land owner
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| Puritans | a member of the Church of England who settled in North America to follow Christian beliefs in a more "pure" way
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| charter | a document giving a person or group official approval to take a certain action
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| Fundamental Orders | the first written system of government in North America; adopted in Connecticut
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| influence | the ability people or things have to affect other people or things
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| refuge | a safe place
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| immigrants | people who come to live in a country after leaving their home country
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| frontier | the land beyond the settlements
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| cash crop | a crop that people raise to sell to others rather than to use themselves
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| House of Burgesses | an assembly that met in the colony of Virginia to make laws
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| naval stores | products made from pine tar that were used in building and repairing ships
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| Indigo | a plant from which blue dye is made
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| debtors | people who had beein in prison for owing money
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