history unit 1 helen Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
implicate | to be involved in or connected with. |
pluralistic | a society when many religious, cultural, and racial co-exist. |
assimilate | to take in and incorporate as ones own. |
historian | an athourity on history. |
archeologist | a scientist who studies past human cultures by looking at the clues they left behind. |
anthropologist | a scientist studies the orgins, characteristics, and customs of humankind |
decimate | to destroy; kill. |
starving time | a period of starvation during the winter of 1609-1610 in which all but 60% of the colonists died. In Jamestown.. |
charter | a written grant by countries legislative or soverigh power by which a instituion is formed. |
proprietary colony | a colony contolled by a buiness men. |
authority | power, right to rule. |
royal colony | a colony controlled by a governor appointed by the king |
toleration act of 1649 | a law passed in maryland that made it a crime to restrict the rights of christians. |
indentured servents | servents who sighned a contract to work 4-7 years for those who paid for their journey to America. |
headright system | colonists who paid for their own way to Virginia recived 50 acers of land . and another 50 acers for every person they brought from england. |
joint-stock company | a business formed by a group of people who who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and in loses. |
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