Discovery and Settlement Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Word
Paleo-Indians
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Definition
Reflection
Restate Definition
The first people who entered,
and subsequently inhabited,
the American continents.
Example:
Ice Age
Period of long-term reduction
in the temperature of the
Earth's surface and
atmosphere.
Connection:
Bering Strait
Mound
Builders
Beringia – Name given by
historians to the land bridge
that connected Asia and North
American during the Ice Age
Farming villages in eastern
North America. They were
known because they buried
clan member in large earth
mounds.
Example:
Early cultures of the Southwest
that typically grew corn, beans,
and squash. Hohokam and
Anasazi groups lived in this
area.
Southwestern
Native People
What were the Hohokam
known for?
Picture
Iroquois
Confederacy
A Native American
confederacy inhabiting New
York State and originally
composed of the Mohawk,
Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga,
and Seneca peoples, known as
the Five Nations. One of
America’s earliest
democracies.
Define Democracy
Matriarchal
Leadership
Society in which females,
especially mothers, have the
central roles of political
leadership, moral authority,
and control of property.
Example:
Originating in and
characteristic of a particular
region or country
Indigenous
Example of a plant
indigenous to the Americas
Human
Migration
Movement by humans from
one place to another,
sometimes over long distances
or in large groups.
Why would people migrate?
Colonization refers strictly to
migration, of settlers to
colonies, trading posts, and
plantations.
Colonization
Name one early colony.
Push Pull
Factors
Push and pull factors are terms
often used for migration. Push
factors are factors or causes
with which people tend to be
pushed away or repelled from
certain locations; while pull
factors are those conditions
that attract people to a
particular location.
Example – Push and Pull
Columbian
Exchange
The transfer of plants, animals,
and diseases between the
Americas and Europe, Asia,
and Africa
Example:
House of
Burgesses
Puritans
Quakers
Americas first law-making
body, formed in July 1619 by
representatives from different
communities in Virginia
A group of English Protestants
who wanted to “purify” the
English Church of England
through reforms; the
established the Massachusetts
Bay Colony and other colonies
in New England in the early
and mid 1600s
Quakers were known for their
use of thou as an ordinary
pronoun, refusal to participate
in war, plain dress, refusal to
swear oaths, and opposition to
alcohol.
Connection:
Catholics
World’s largest Christian
church.
Connection:
Protestants
Any of several church
denominations denying the
universal authority of the Pope
and affirming the Reformation
principles of justification by
faith alone
Example:
Farming society
Agrarian
Indentured
Servant
Slavery
How does farming change
early communities?
Men and women whose
employers pay for passage to
the country they wish to
emigrate to, food and shelter,
in return the indentures
servants agree to work for the
employer for a certain number
of years, usually five or seven.
System under which people are
treated as property to be
bought and sold, and are
forced to work
What is the difference
between slavery and
indentured servitude?
French and
Indian War
War fought between France
and England in the 1750s over
territorial claims in North
America
What does this lead to?