Indigenous Peoples of North America
To change in order to adjust to a new condition or environment.
Adapt
To change a person's religious beliefs so they accept a different or new religion.
Convert
Separated or set apart from other people or things
Isolated
A power or privilege that belongs to people as citizens and that cannot or should not be taken away by the government.
Right
A course of action taken by a government
Policy
For a limited, often short-term, period of time.
Temporary
A new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land.
Colony
The way a society organizes the manufacture and exchange of things of value, couch as money, food, products, and services.
Economy
Rebelled
A formal, written request made to an official person or organization
Petition
Good at finding ways to solve problems.
Resourceful
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americans.
Columbian Exchanage
An agreement that Pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas.
Mayflower Compact
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
Rights common to everyone, as opposed to those given by law
Natural right
An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language
Cultural region
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
Wealthy
prosperous
A revival of religious feeling and belief among Protestant Christians in the American colonies that began in the 1730s
Great Awakening
Basic
Fundamental
A vast, treeless plain in the Arctic regions with very cold winters, cold summers and little rain or snow.
Tundra
French fur trappers who learned many skills from the Indigenous people with whom they worked and lived.
Coureurs de bois
An economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies.
Mercantilism
Time spent not working
Leisure
To express ideas or feelings in a way that is moving and well-spoken
Eloquent