Maine History Chapter 5 and 6
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Created by:
MaggieMcNeice on April 4, 2012
Subjects:
Social Studies 6 Scarborough MS
Description:
Road to Statehood
Maine in the American Revolution
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22 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 repeal | to cancel (take back) by official authority |
| boycott | the act of refusing to buy something in order to make a point |
| evict | to force someone out |
| apprentice | a person who lives with a master craftsman to learn a trade |
| deport | to forcibly remove someone (from a country) |
| unalienable | unable to be taken away (rights) |
| indentured servant | a person whose passage to America was paid in return for several years labor (work) |
| warrant | an official document that grants permission for a place to be searched |
| province | a territory that is part of another nation or colony |
| rule of law | the idea that laws, not just one person, rule a nation |
| preamble | the opening section of the Constitution |
| bicameral | having two legislative parts (Congress and Senate) |
| squatter | a farmer who settled on land without legal claim to it |
| neutrality | the state of not taking either side |
| amend | to change |
| impressment | kidnapping people and forcing them to work |
| foreign policy | the decision a nation must make (relations with other nations) |
| ratification | approval |
| article | a specific section of a document |
| epidemic | an outbreak of a disease that spreads wildly and rapidly |
| Plank | Who is the strong, silent type? |
| cul-de-sac | where Ed, Edd and Eddy live |
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