Unit 1 US History
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| the way goods, wealth and services are created and used | ||
| to send goods to another region or country | ||
| a newly settled or lightly settled ares of older settlements | ||
| to trade a product or service for another product or service | ||
| an item brought into a country/region from another region | ||
| an open area shared by all villagers | ||
| rights given to the people by the government | ||
| a group of people who decide whether a person on trial is guilty or innocent | ||
| the idea that a nation becomes stronger by building up its gold supply and increasing its trade | ||
| to control | ||
| money that must be paid to the government | ||
| wood that is cut in order to be used for building | ||
| a waterway where ships can be loaded or unloaded | ||
| British law that said that only English ships or ships made in America could carry goods to and from the colonies | ||
| colonist from Pennsylvania who had ideas to add street lights, a fire company and a library to Philadelphia in order to improve the city | ||
| King of England before and during the American Revolution | ||
| to take over and control | ||
| a settlement, built by a church, from which people teach their religion to others | ||
| to change from one religion or belief to another | ||
| a company in which people give money to share costs | ||
| a written agreement giving certain rights | ||
| a crop grown for sale rather than use for a farmer | ||
| a person who sighns a contract to work for others | ||
| a written agreement by two or more nations | ||
| a person who owes money to others | ||
| a mythical fountain whose water would make old people young again | ||
| a Spanish explorer. He went to Mexico where he conquered and destroyed the Aztec Empire | ||
| King of the Aztec empire when it was destroyed | ||
| A Spanish explorer who traveled to South America. He destroyed the Incan Empire | ||
| Spanish explorer who searche for the fountain of youth. He never found the fountain the fountain, but did find Florida. | ||
| Spanish explorer who claimed a large area in the southwest of the US for Spain | ||
| Frenchman who explored the St. Lawrence River in Canada. Claimed Canada for France | ||
| Frenchman who sailed up the St. Lawrence River and built the fort of Quebec | ||
| Englishman who was leader of the Jamestown colony | ||
| chief of the Algonquin tribe; traded with the English in Jamestown and helped them survive through the winter | ||
| another group of people who left England to gain religious freedom. Traveled on Mayflower and settled in Massachusetts | ||
| a group of people from England who traveled to New England for religious freedom and settled the Mass. Bay Colony | ||
| a Puritan woman who lived in the Mass. Bay colony. She did not agree with all Puritan beliefs and was expelled from the colony | ||
| Englishman who explored the Hudson River and claimed the land around it for the Netherlands (Holland) | ||
| an Englishman who started the colony of Pennsylvania |