Vocab
An _____________________________ was someone who agreed to work for a period, usually 7 years, as a servant in America in exchange for passage to the New World
Indentured Servant
Penecute was a Native American guide for which explorers?
Who was western Virginia's first permanent settler?
Morgan Morgan
What is the WORST condiment to put on a sandwich?
Mayonnaise
A ____________________ is a military force composed mostly of citizen soldiers
Militia
Who was the first European explorer to enter what is now West Virginia?
John Lederer
Why were many Scots-Irish unhappy in Northern Ireland?
They were restricted in farming methods, discriminated against in their religion, and could not hold political office.
What replaced indentured servitude as the dominant form of labor in early 1700s?
Slavery
A ________________ is the area just at the edge of or beyond a settled area
Frontier
Which explorers marked trees with a hot iron to claim territory for Great Britain?
Batts and Fallum
Why did many Germans immigrate from Europe to North America?
Long periods of warfare and religious persecution.
Which group of Native Americans had a monopoly on trading activity in the western lands?
Occaneechi
___________________ is official permission to operate something, such as a colony
Charter
Which British explorer gave each member of his expedition a miniature golden horseshoe?
Alexander Spotswood
Thomas Shepherd, the settler who acquired the land that would ultimately become Shepherdstown, was from what immigrant group?
Germans
The first permanent English settlement in North America was made at _____________________.
Jamestown
___________________ is a particular religious group
Denomination
Who began exploring to find land for profit in the mid-1700s?
Privately owned land companies
What conflicts were emerging on the western Virginia frontier?
Settlers vs. Natives, British vs. French
Indentured servants usually served a term of _______ years.
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