1st Semester Study Guide
6th Grade
Carbon Dating
• Way to date artifacts
Artifacts
• Things left behind by early people
Maize
• An early form of corn
Migration
• Movement of a group of people
Nomads
• People who move from place to place
Pacific
• Means “Peaceful”
Circumnavigate
• To sail around to world
Leif Eriksson
• Viking Sailor
Christopher Columbus
• Admiral of the Ocean Sea
Portuguese
• Leading explorers in the 1400’s
Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut
• 1st written constitution in America
Patroons
• Wealthy landowners
Croatoan
• Carved on a gatepost at Roanoke
General Court
• Jamestown colony stockholders
Metacomet
• Also known as King Phillip
Militia
• Civilian soldiers
Jeffrey Amherst
• Brittish Commander
Pontiac
• Ottawa chief
Shipbuilding
• Important New England industry
William Pitt
• Oversaw the war effort from London
Stamp Act
• Taxed printed material
Samuel Adams
• Made propaganda posters
Committees of Correspondence
• United protesters opposed to British rule
Captain John Parker
• Leader of the minutemen
Richard Henry Lee
• Proposed that the colonies be free
Margaret Corbin
• Patriot fighter
Henry Hamilton
• The “hair buyer”
Lemuel Hayes
• African American patriot
Thaddeus Kosciusko
• A polish person who contributed to the
American war effort
Charles Cornwallis
• British commander of Southern forces
John Locke
• Believed all people had natural rights
Baron de Montesquieu
• Proposed that government powers be
separate and balanced
James Madison
• Author of the Virginia Plan
Edmund Randolph
• Introduced the Virginia Plan
Roger Sherman
• Proposed the Great Compromise
Pinckney’s Treaty
• Free navigation of the Mississippi
Whiskey Rebellion
• Armed protest
Jay’s Treaty
• Treaty that did not deal with impressment
Caucuses
• Political meetings
Aaron Burr
• Jefferson’s running mate in 1796
York
• Explored with Lewis and Clark
Stephen Decatur
• Burned the “Philadelphia”
Judiciary Act of 1801
• Set up regional courts
Federalists
• Political party that lost the publics respect
War Hawks
• Group that took over the Republican Party
John Quincy Adams
• James Monroe’s secretary of state
Andrew Jackson
• Invaded Spanish East Florida in 1818
Daniel Webster
• Favored the Tariff of 1816
Miguel Hidalgo
• Mexican revolutionary
Missouri Compromise
• Negotiated by Henry Clay