https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts vocabulary en-us 2018-09-17 15:52:20 UTC 2019-02-21 21:12:33 UTC hello@padlet.com onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/282419953 the governing body of a nation, state, or community]]> 2018-09-17 15:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/282419953 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/282453691  a set of rules that guides how a country, state, or other political organization works. ]]> 2018-09-17 16:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/282453691 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/282455950 an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions.]]> 2018-09-17 16:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/282455950 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/282457595 sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid.]]> 2018-09-17 16:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/282457595 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/282458495 the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.]]> 2018-09-17 16:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/282458495 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/282459474 a change or addition to a legal or statutory document]]> 2018-09-17 16:52:07 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/282459474 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/282460993 counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups.]]> 2018-09-17 16:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/282460993 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293924769 Algonquian is the name of a family of Northeast Native American languages. Its speakers include the Penobscot, Massachuset, Mohican, Shawnee, Miami, and Illinois tribes. Collectively these tribes are called Algonquin.]]> 2018-10-17 15:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293924769 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293927965 An empire is a large group of territories and people who are ruled by a single sovereign leader or nation. Throughout history countries or groups of people have built empires by using their military, or the threat of military power, to conquer other territories.]]> 2018-10-17 15:46:26 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293927965 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293930530 The Iroquois League was a confederation of five Indian nations, including the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. The Tuscarora joined the confederation in 1722. They had migrated from North Carolina to New York.]]> 2018-10-17 15:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293930530 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293932059 A kiva is a room used by Puebloans for religious rituals and political meetings, many of them associated with the kachina belief system. Among the modern Hopi and most other Pueblo peoples, kivas are square-walled and underground, and are used for spiritual ceremonies.]]> 2018-10-17 15:52:00 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293932059 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293932566 A longhouse was a type of home that a number of different Native American tribes built, especially tribes who lived in the forests of the Northeast. A longhouse was made of a framework of poles that the Native Americans then covered with sheets of bark. ]]> 2018-10-17 15:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293932566 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293933889 Natural resources are substances, materials, and living things that occur on or within the earth and that have economic value. These can include natural gas, fish, and forests. A natural resource has economic value only when people learn how to use or extract it. ]]> 2018-10-17 15:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293933889 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293957870 Pueblo comes from the Spanish word for “village.” The Pueblo Indian emerged around 100 CE. This group settled in the region that spanned from central Utah to northern Mexico. ]]> 2018-10-17 16:30:18 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293957870 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293958402 A tepee was a cone-shaped tent used by some Native American groups for shelter. This type of housing was most common in the Plains region of the United States. ]]> 2018-10-17 16:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293958402 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293959663 Totem poles had seven main uses, some of which include marking a grave, identifying a home’s owner, or guarding the remains of dead ancestors. They could also be made to mock people who had fallen into disgrace.]]> 2018-10-17 16:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/293959663 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309408426 Astrolabes are ancient scientific instruments used by astronomers and mariners.]]> 2018-11-29 16:55:05 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309408426 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309439180 Used by Spanish and Portuguese sailors in the 1400s to 1600s, caravels were small sailing ships. The ships were light, fast, and more maneuverable than many other ships of the time.


]]> 2018-11-29 17:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309439180 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309440365 Circumnavigate means "to travel, or navigate, all the way around something." ]]> 2018-11-29 17:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309440365 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309441519 A compass is a navigational tool for finding direction on Earth's surface. The oldest and most common type of compass is the magnetic compass. ]]> 2018-11-29 17:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309441519 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309442736 They were called conquistadors, which in Spanish means "conquerors." The conquistadors were powerful soldiers on a mission to gain wealth and territory for the nation of Spain by conquering other peoples.]]> 2018-11-29 17:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309442736 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309446328 An expedition is a journey taken for a specific purpose. ]]> 2018-11-29 17:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309446328 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309448112 The lateen sail represented a significant breakthrough in water transportation. ]]> 2018-11-29 17:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309448112 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309449443 A mutiny is an active rebellion or resistance to a military authority by someone who is under the command of that authority

]]> 2018-11-29 17:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309449443 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309450251 Beginning in the late 1400s, European explorers searched the land and waters of North America for the Northwest Passage. This sea route, if it existed, was said to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. ]]> 2018-11-29 17:59:11 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309450251 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309451189 A patron is an individual or a group who provides financial, moral, or political support to someone in need. In Latin, patronus means “defender, protector, advocate.”]]> 2018-11-29 18:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309451189 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309451747 A quadrant is a tool that allows people to accurately measure the altitude of the sun or a star above the horizon. It is made of an arc that shows angle measurements up to 90 degrees and a movable radius to measure the angle of the sun above the horizon.]]> 2018-11-29 18:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/309451747 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/317991063  The conquistadors were powerful soldiers on a mission to gain wealth and territory for the nation of Spain by conquering other people]]> 2019-01-07 17:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/317991063 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/317994630 The encomienda was the system that the Spanish government used to try to control Native Americans in the American colonies in the 1500s.]]> 2019-01-07 17:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/317994630 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/317995177 The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.]]> 2019-01-07 17:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/317995177 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/317999769 An epidemic is an outbreak of an infectious disease that affects an unusually large number of people and lasts for a long time. ]]> 2019-01-07 17:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/317999769 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/318862935
An indentured servant is a worker who agrees to provide a service for a specified time in return for some form of payment. ]]> 2019-01-09 16:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/318862935 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/318865135 The Middle Passage was a term used to describe the middle part of an enslaved person’s journey from Africa to the Americas. ]]> 2019-01-09 16:30:03 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/318865135 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/318865631
A mission is an organized effort by Christians to spread their religious faith. In the 1600s and 1700s, the term was used to described settlements in North America that were established by Spanish Catholic priests to spread their religion to Native Americans]]> 2019-01-09 16:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/318865631 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/318867032 The act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries.]]> 2019-01-09 16:33:13 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/318867032 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/318870199 The forced migration of millions of captured and enslaved people from Africa to the Americas is known as the transatlantic slave trade.]]> 2019-01-09 16:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/318870199 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/318872029 The triangular trade was a series of transatlantic trade routes that—when plotted on a map—roughly resembled triangles.]]> 2019-01-09 16:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/318872029 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/318872836 Vaquero is the Spanish word for a cattle herder, and vaqueros in Mexico were the first cowboys in North America.]]> 2019-01-09 16:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/318872836 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/328389133 The church of England has been the official church of England for about 450 years.]]> 2019-02-06 17:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/328389133 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/328391756 A colony is an area of land or a settlement that is ruled by another country. ]]> 2019-02-06 17:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/328391756 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/328393041 Economists use the term commodity to refer to a particular kind of good. Commodities are usually agricultural products, minerals, or other raw materials.]]> 2019-02-06 17:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/328393041 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/328394480 The Dutch West India Company was a trading company. It had a monopoly on trade with Africa, the Americas, and every place in between.

]]> 2019-02-06 17:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/328394480 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329949127 These companies were backed by the throne, meaning that the king or queen had granted permission to the colonists, as well as a land grant. Stock was sold to wealthy investors, and their money was used to start the colony. Over time, if the colony was successful, money was returned to the investors. This method of colonization helped the colonies run efficiently because many people were invested in their success. The Jamestown Colony, in Virginia, was a joint-stock company, run by the London Company.]]> 2019-02-11 16:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329949127 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329953135 The Massachusetts Bay Company was the British joint-stock company that founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony. ]]> 2019-02-11 16:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329953135 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329953901 The Mayflower Compact was a document drawn up by the Pilgrims who sailed to Plymouth on the Mayflower. It was signed on November 21, 1620, before the Pilgrims landed and left their ship.]]> 2019-02-11 16:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329953901 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329954652 Mercantilism is an economic theory that was practiced by European powers saying that you should export more than import.]]> 2019-02-11 16:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329954652 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329955518 The word pilgrim means someone who takes a long journey, usually to a religious site—a journey known as a pilgrimage. ]]> 2019-02-11 16:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329955518 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329956238 The term Protestant Church refers to several different section of Christianity that began to split off from the Catholic Church during the Protestant Reformation, which took place in the 1500s. The Reformation was a protest against abuses in the Catholic Church. It led to the creation of numerous new churches, known as Protestant churches.]]> 2019-02-11 16:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329956238 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329957125 A staple crop is a crop that is most commonly grown in a particular region. Staple crops can be food sources that are used to feed a great number of people, such as rice in China]]> 2019-02-11 16:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329957125 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329957800 The Virginia Company was the English company that founded the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.]]> 2019-02-11 16:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329957800 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329958750 Like many other early American colonists, Anne Hutchinson was born in England. She came to America in 1634 and settled with her husband and children in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hutchinson had her own beliefs about religion. She felt that a relationship with God was a personal one and that you didn’t need to go to church to maintain that relationship.]]> 2019-02-11 16:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329958750 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329959710 John Rolfe was a colonial official and planter who played a vital role in the economic success of the Jamestown colony. ]]> 2019-02-11 16:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329959710 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329961161 Peter Stuyvesant was the son of a Calvinist minister and a director in the Dutch West India Company. In 1645, he was named Director General of all Dutch colonies in North America and the Caribbean. This included the colony of New Netherland, located in what is now New York State. When Stuyvesant arrived in the colony’s capital city of New Amsterdam in 1647, he found the colony in a weak state. He immediately began issuing rules and regulations. For example, he regulated taverns and exposed smuggling operations. The people of New Netherland had been accustomed to ineffective leaders, and they found Stuyvesant’s manner arrogant and his decrees harsh. Nevertheless, they worked with him to establish the city’s first municipal government in 1653.]]> 2019-02-11 16:45:09 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329961161 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329962070 Roger Williams was an English colonist who founded the colony of Rhode Island. He was born in England and came to America in 1631.]]> 2019-02-11 16:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329962070 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329963171 The Separatists were a strict Puritan section within English Protestantism. United by their dislike of the Church of England, the Separatists wanted to either do away with the Church or sever all ties with it. The Separatists’ arguments with the Church of England were straightforward: too many elements of Roman Catholicism remained in the Protestant Church, and the Church wasn’t enforcing religious beliefs forcibly enough. The Separatists felt persecuted within their own country.]]> 2019-02-11 16:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329963171 onealw_26 https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329964423 Thomas Hooker was a pastor who came to America in 1633, landing in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. ]]> 2019-02-11 16:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/onealw_26/h6fyi87ly7ts/wish/329964423