Indigenous Peoples of North America
European Colonization in the Americas
Comparing the English Colonies
Life in the Colonies
The Declaration of Independence
100

To change in order to adjust to a new condition or environment.

Adapt

100

To change a person's religious beliefs so they accept a different or new religion.

Convert

100

Separated or set apart from other people or things 

Isolated 

100

A power or privilege that belongs to people as citizens and that cannot or should not be taken away by the government.

Right

100

A course of action taken by a government

Policy

200

For a limited, often short-term, period of time.

Temporary

200

A new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land.

Colony

200

The way a society organizes the manufacture and exchange of things of value, couch as money, food, products, and services. 

Economy

200
To fight against a government or another authority.

Rebelled

200

A formal, written request made to an official person or organization

Petition

300

Good at finding ways to solve problems.

Resourceful

300

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americans.

Columbian Exchanage

300

An agreement that Pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas.

Mayflower Compact

300

An act passed by Parliament in 1689 that limited the monarch's power by giving certain powers to Parliament and listing specific rights of the citizens.

English Bill of Rights

300

Rights common to everyone, as opposed to those given by law

Natural right

400

An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language

Cultural region

400

Spanish soldiers who accompanied ship captains and merchants in the Americans. These soldiers took land and resources from the Indigenous people of Mexico and Peru, usually by violent means.

Conquistadors

400

Wealthy

prosperous

400

A revival of religious feeling and belief among Protestant Christians in the American colonies that began in the 1730s

Great Awakening 

400

Basic

Fundamental

500

A vast, treeless plain in the Arctic regions with very cold winters, cold summers and little rain or snow.

Tundra

500

French fur trappers who learned many skills from the Indigenous people with whom they worked and lived.

Coureurs de bois

500

An economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies.

Mercantilism

500

Time spent not working

Leisure

500

To express ideas or feelings in a way that is moving and well-spoken

Eloquent

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