Colonization Word Definitions by Victoria

Pact

muhlbachv — 2013-09-09 00:22:31 UTC

~ a formal agreement between individuals or parties

Smallpox

muhlbachv — 2013-09-09 00:25:39 UTC

~ an acute contagious viral disease, with fever and pustules usually leaving permanent scars. It was effectively eradicated through vaccination by 1979.

Literacy

muhlbachv — 2013-09-09 00:26:37 UTC

~ the ability to read and write.

Apprentice

muhlbachv — 2013-09-09 00:27:21 UTC

~ a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages.

Scots-Irish

muhlbachv — 2013-09-09 00:27:47 UTC

~ the North American descendants of Protestants from Scotland who migrated to nothern Ireland in the 1600s.

Conestoga wagons

muhlbachv — 2013-09-09 00:28:09 UTC

~ a large covered wagon used for long-distance travel, typically carrying pioneers in the westward migration.

William Penn

muhlbachv — 2013-09-09 00:28:49 UTC

~ Englishman and Quaker who had found the colony of Pennsylvania.

Smuggling

muhlbachv — 2013-09-09 00:28:56 UTC

~ move (goods) illegally into or out of a country.

Cash Crops

muhlbachv — 2013-09-09 00:29:20 UTC

~ a crop produced for its commerical value rather than for use by the grower.

Artisans

muhlbachv — 2013-09-09 14:17:50 UTC

~ a worker in a skilled trade, one that involves making things by hand.

Lord Baltimore

muhlbachv — 2013-09-09 14:18:51 UTC

~ The first person to dream of a colony in America where Catholics and Protestnats could prosper together.

Proprietary colony

muhlbachv — 2013-09-11 23:55:23 UTC

~ a colony given to a proprietor to govern (in 17th century)

Patroon

muhlbachv — 2013-09-11 23:56:12 UTC

~ a person given land and granted certain manorial privileges under the former Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.

Quakers

muhlbachv — 2013-09-11 23:56:22 UTC

~ a member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian sect founded by the English religious leader George Fox about 1650, whose central belief is the doctrine of the "Inner Light". Quakers reject sacraments, ritual, and formal ministry, hold meetings at which any member may speak, and have promoted many causes for social reform

Roger Williams

muhlbachv — 2013-09-11 23:56:31 UTC

~ An English Peotestant theologian who was an early proponent of religous freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the colony of Providence religious minorities.

John Winthrop

muhlbachv — 2013-09-11 23:57:01 UTC

~ a wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in New England after Plymouth Colony.

Puritans

muhlbachv — 2013-09-11 23:57:38 UTC

~ a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.

Pilgrims

muhlbachv — 2013-09-11 23:57:50 UTC

~ a member of a group of English Puritans fleeing religious persecution who sailed in the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620.