word Wall by Israel Kuhn https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw vocabulary en-us 2018-09-18 15:50:49 UTC 2019-02-21 16:57:35 UTC hello@padlet.com goverment kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/282998510 The system of rules and the people who make and administer them is known as a government.]]> 2018-09-18 15:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/282998510 Constitutio kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/283031926 We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.]]> 2018-09-18 16:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/283031926 compromise kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/284418396 "Compromised" is a nice way of saying that someone or something has maliciously broken into your computer without your knowledge or permission.]]> 2018-09-21 15:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/284418396 ratify kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/284419410 When the U. S. Constitution was signed it was ratified. When the U. S. Constitution was signed it was ratified.


]]> 2018-09-21 15:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/284419410 Bill of Rights kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/284423772 The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are summarized below.]]> 2018-09-21 15:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/284423772 Algonquian kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294430220
  •  relating to a family of North American Indian languages formerly spoken across a vast area from the Atlantic seaboard to the Great Lakes and the Great Plains.


    • ]]>     2018-10-18 15:48:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294430220     empire kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294434537 An empire is a political construct in which one state dominates over another state, or a series of states. ]]> 2018-10-18 15:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294434537 Iroquois League kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294438101 The Iroquois Indians once lived along the St. Lawrence River which is located in what is now known as New York State]]> 2018-10-18 16:00:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294438101 kivas kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294487853 a chamber, built wholly or partly underground, used by male Pueblo Indians for religious rites.]]> 2018-10-18 16:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294487853 Iroquois longhouse kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294489273
    The Iroquois longhouse were built to house 20 or more families.

    The Iroquois Indian tribe was actually a confederacy of six Native American nations.  

    ]]>     2018-10-18 16:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294489273     natural resource kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294491738 A natural resource is something that is found innature and can be used by people. Earth's natural resources include light, air, water, plants, animals, soil, stone, minerals, and fossil fuels.]]> 2018-10-18 16:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294491738 pueblos kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294494606
  • an American Indian settlement of the southwestern US, especially one consisting of multistoried adobe houses built by the Pueblo people.



    • ]]>     2018-10-18 16:59:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294494606     totem kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294495791 A natural object or animal believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and adopted by it as an emblem.]]> 2018-10-18 17:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294495791 tepee kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294495792 A portable conical tent made of skins, cloth, or canvas on a frame of poles, used by American Indians of the Plains and Great Lakes regions.]]> 2018-10-18 17:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/294495792 astrolabe kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309851215 Definition of astrolabe. : a compact instrument used to observe and calculate the position of celestial bodies before the invention of the sextant.]]> 2018-11-30 16:26:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309851215 caravel Definition of caravel. : any of several sailing ships specifically : a small 15th and 16th century ship that has broad bows, high narrow poop, and usually three masts with lateen or both square and lateen sails. kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309861327 2018-11-30 16:44:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309861327 circumnavigation transitive verb. : to go completely around especially by water circumnavigate the earth also : to go around instead of through : bypass circumnavigate a congested area. kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309862698 2018-11-30 16:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309862698 Kids Definition of compass. 1 : a device having a magnetic needle that indicates direction on the earth's surface by pointing toward the north. kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309865285 2018-11-30 16:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309865285 A conquistador is a person who is out to conquer new territory. A conquistador was the name given to the Fifteenth-to-Seventeenth century Spanish and Portugese soldiers who conquered much of the world, most famously the Central and Southern Americas. kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309866786 2018-11-30 16:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309866786 expedition kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309891514 Definition of expedition. 1a : a journey or excursion undertaken for a specific purpose. ]]> 2018-11-30 17:43:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309891514 lateen sail kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309894530 2018-11-30 17:49:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309894530 mutiny kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309896653 mutinies. definition: open disobeying or fighting against the leaders in charge; open rebellion against lawful authority. synonyms: rebellion, uprising similar words: revolt.]]> 2018-11-30 17:53:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309896653 North Passage kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309897526 Random Word. linguistic means consisting of or related to language; "linguistic behavior"; "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity"; of or relating to the scientific study of language;... more. Ford words starting with: A.]]> 2018-11-30 17:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309897526 patron kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309899515 The word patron comes from the Latin pater or patr- meaning "father." Think of how a father is supposed to financially support his kids. A patron of the arts is someone who shows his appreciation or support for the arts by donating money to arts organizations.]]> 2018-11-30 17:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309899515 quadran kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309900128 Kids Definition of quadrant. 1 : one-fourth of a circle. 2 : any of the four parts into which something is divided by two imaginary or real lines that intersect each other at right angles.]]> 2018-11-30 18:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/309900128 conquistador kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/318447215 a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.]]> 2019-01-08 17:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/318447215 encomienda kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/318452726 a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.

    ]]>     2019-01-08 17:52:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/318452726     environment kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/318455593 the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

    ]]>     2019-01-08 17:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/318455593     epidemic kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/318457352 a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

    ]]>     2019-01-08 17:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/318457352     indentured servant kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/318458744 Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia.Indentured servants were men and women who signed a contract (also known as an indenture or a covenant) by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter ]]> 2019-01-08 18:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/318458744 Middle Passage kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/318461179
    the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
    ]]>     2019-01-08 18:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/318461179     trade kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/319032682 the action of buying and selling goods and services.]]> 2019-01-09 21:50:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/319032682 Triangular Trade kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/319034473 a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.]]> 2019-01-09 21:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/319034473 vaquero kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/319034918 (in Spanish-speaking parts of the US) a cowboy; a cattle driver]]> 2019-01-09 21:59:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/319034918 transatlantic slave trade kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/319331007 The Atlantic slave trade was the selling of African people as slaves by Europeans that happened in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 15th century to the 19th century. ... Some were sold into slavery as punishment or to pay a debt, usually by other Africans.]]> 2019-01-10 16:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/319331007 Church of England kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/329325940 The Church of England has been the official church in England for about 450 years.]]> 2019-02-08 17:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/329325940 Protestant Church kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/329326712 A member of one of the Christian churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century. Protestant. Kids Definition of Protestant (Entry 2 of 2)]]> 2019-02-08 17:56:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/329326712 colony kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330418968 a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

    ]]>     2019-02-12 16:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330418968     staple crop kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330422011 produced regularly or in large quantities staple crops such as wheat and rice.]]> 2019-02-12 16:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330422011 commodity A commodity is any useful or valuable thing, especially something that is bought and sold. kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330422692 2019-02-12 16:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330422692 Virginia Company kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330427256  The Virginia Company was a joint stock company that was approved by King James I to create new settlements in the colony of Virginia. A joint stock company is a business organization with which investors pooled money in order to purchase stock in a company.]]> 2019-02-12 16:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330427256 Dutch West India Company kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330429268 The Dutch West India Company (Dutch: West-Indische Compagnie or WIC) was ancompany of Dutch merchants. ... The area where the company could operate consisted of West Africa (the area between the Tropic of Cancer and Cape of Good Hope) and the Americas, which included the Pacific Ocean and the eastern part of New Guinea.]]> 2019-02-12 16:46:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330429268 Anne Hutchinson kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330431171 Kids Encyclopedia Facts. Hutchinson on trial. Anne Hutchinson (baptized July 20, 1591 - August or September 1643), was a religious dissenter in Puritan New England. She was the defendant in the most famous of the trials intended to suppress religious dissent in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.]]> 2019-02-12 16:49:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330431171 joint-stock company kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330433502 A joint-stock company is a business owned by people called shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion to the number of their shares(certificates of ownership). ... This means the shareholders are only liable for the company's debts to the value of the money they invested in the company.]]> 2019-02-12 16:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330433502 Massachusetts Bay Company kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330436056 The Massachusetts Bay Company was a joint stock trading company chartered by the English crown in 1629 to colonize a vast area in New England extending from 3 mi (4.8 km) miles north of the Merrimack River to 3 mi miles south of the Charles River.]]> 2019-02-12 16:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330436056 John Rolfe kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330580682 John Rolfe was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Confederacy.]]> 2019-02-12 21:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330580682 Peter Stuyvesant kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330581717  The last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England (1592-1672) Synonyms: Petrus Stuyvesant, Stuyvesant Example of: administrator, executive. someone who manages a government agency or department.

    ]]>     2019-02-12 21:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330581717     Mayflower Compact kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330583043
    Mayflower Compact. An agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the ship the Mayflower in 1620, just before they landed at Plymouth Rock. The Mayflower Compact bound them to live in a civil society according to their own laws.

    ]]>     2019-02-12 21:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330583043     Roger Williams kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330584143
    Roger Williams (1603?-1683) was a religious dissenter and the founder of Rhode Island (1636). During his fifty years in New England, Williams was a staunch advocate of religious toleration and separation of church and state.
    ]]>     2019-02-12 21:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330584143     mercantilism kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330585612 Mercantilism, also called "commercialism,” is a system in which a country attempts to amass wealth through trade with other countries, exporting more than it imports and increasing stores of gold and precious metals.]]> 2019-02-12 21:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330585612 Separatist kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330588379 plural separatists. Learner's definition of SEPARATIST. : a member of a group of people who want to form a new country, religion, etc., that is separate from the one they are in now. An advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction" Similar Words: separationist, breakaway, fissiparous.

    ]]>     2019-02-12 22:01:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330588379     Pilgrim kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330625901 noun. a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: a pilgrimage to Lourdes.

    ]]>     2019-02-13 00:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330625901     Thomas Hooker kuhni_26 https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330626337
    Thomas Hooker. ... Thomas Hooker (July 5, 1586 – July 7, 1647) was a prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and an advocate of universal Christian suffrage.
    ]]>     2019-02-13 01:02:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kuhni_26/osl7w8kt9xsw/wish/330626337