Harcourt Social Studies Ch. 6
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 shelter | a home or building that protects people from the weather |
| patriotism | a feeling of pride in one's country |
| pioneer | a person who settles a new land |
| language | a set of words a group of people use to communicate |
| oral history | means spoken |
| Native Americans | the people who formed the first communities in North America |
| tribes | the things that groups of Native Americans lived in |
| moccasins | shoes |
| teepees | shelters that were made from animal skins pulled tightly over wooden poles |
| Christopher Columbus | an Italian explorer who sailed from Spain in 1492, and landed on an island off the coast of North America |
| explorer | a person who goes to find out about a place |
| religion | a person's belief system |
| claim | to say that something belongs to you |
| settlement | a new community |
| settler | one of the first people to live in a new community |
| conflict | a disagreement |
| slavery | a system under which people have no choices |
| Pedro Menendez de Aviles | a Spanish explorer sent to what is now Florida by the king of Spain in 1565 |
| St. Augustine | a fort built in what is now Florida by Pedro Menendez de Aviles and completed in 1695 |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | a Spanish explorer who first claimed the land that is now Florida for Spain in 1513 |
| Pierre Laclede | a French explorer who founded St. Louis in what is now Missouri in 1764 |
| St. Louis | a settlement named after King Louis XV of France, that became one of the largest river ports in the nation |
| Jamestown | the settlement in what is now Virginia, founded by settlers from England in 1607 and named after King James I |
| John Smith | an early leader of Jamestown who traded with Native Americans to get food for the settlers |
| John Rolfe | the man who began growing tobacco in Jamestown in 1612 |
| enslaved person | a person who is owned by another person and forced to work without pay |
| Pocahontas | the daughter of Chief Powhatan; Native Americans living near Jamestown |
| Wampanoag | the first people to live where Plymouth, Massachusetts is today |
| Mayflower | a ship that carried more people from England to North America in 1620 |
| pilgrims | people who travel for religious reasons |
| The Mayflower Compact | an agreement that set up a government for the community |
| freedom | the right to make your own choices |
| colony | a place that is ruled by another country |
| tax | the money that citizens pay to the government for goods and services |
| revolution | a fight for a change in government |
| independence | freedom from another country's control |
| The Constitution | a written set of laws that describe how a government will work, approved in 1789 |
| President | a leader for the country |
| England (or Britain) | the country that most of the settlements along the eastern coast of North American were colonies of |
| Boston Tea Party | an action taken in 1773 by colonists who were angry about taxes on tea; they dumped 342 crates of tea into Boston Harbor |
| 13 colonies | by the 1700s these were the beginning of the United States |
| Revolutionary War | the war between the colonists and soldiers, who had been sent from Britain, that began in 1775 and ended in 1783 |
| Declaration of Independence | written in Philadelphia in 1776 by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and other leaders of the colonies, listing reasons the colonists wanted independence from Britain |
| July 4, 1776 | the day the leaders voted to accept the Declaration of Independence, making a new country, the United States of America |
| Preamble | the first part of the Constitution |
| John Hancock | one of the colony leaders wrote his name large on the Declaration of Independence, later his name came to mean a person's written name |
| George Washington | a general chosen to lead the American troops against Britain, who later was chosen as our first President on April 30, 1789, and became known as "the father of our country" |
| pioneer | a person who settles a new land |
| The Civil War | a war between the Northern States and the Southern States, that began in 1861and ended in 1865 because of the different view they had on many things, including slavery |
| territory | land that belongs to a government, but is not a state or a colony |
| amendment | a change to something that is already written |
| immigrant | a person who comes to live in a country from somewhere else in the world |
| Louisiana Purchase | a huge area of land that President Thomas Jefferson bought from the French in 1803. |
| Meriwether Lewis & William Clark | men who President Jefferson asked to explore the Louisiana Purchase and to also find a way to the Pacific Ocean |
| The Corps of Discovery | the group of nearly 40 people that traveled with Lewis & Clark |
| Sacagawea | a Shoshone woman who became a guide for Lewis and Clark |
| York | an enslaved African American who traveled with Lewis & Clark |
| churns | the things pioneers used to make their own butter |
| civil war | people of one country fighting each other |
| Harriet Tubman | an African American woman who helped enslaved people escape to freedom |
| Frederick Douglass | an African American man who wrote and spoke out against slavery |
| Abraham Lincoln | our 16th President, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation |
| The Emancipation Proclamation | a document that Lincoln signed in 1863 that called for many enslaved people in the Confederate states to be free |
| Northern States | called the Union States |
| Southern States | called the Confederate States |
| The Gettysburg Address | a speech given by Lincoln to honor soldiers who had died in a famous battle |
| 1959 | the year that Hawaii and Alaska became states, making our total 50 |
| Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin | the first U.S. astronauts to walk on the moon in 1969 |
| history map | a map that shows what a place looked like at an earlier time |
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