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US History Key Terms (SBU)
Lecture 2
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History
Undergraduate 1
09/15/2011

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Land Bridge
Definition
a tract of land that connects continents, permitting the passage of people and animals
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Pueblo
Definition
 a diverse group of Native American inhabitants of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona; lived in buildings built into the cliffs
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Woodland
Definition
North Eastern America; were hunters and gatherers; population was mobile; had a trade network amoung themselves
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Mississippian
Definition
built mounds used for religious ceremonies and burials; hunting, fishing, and agiculture; different people had different crafts/trades; involved in trade
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Mound Builders
Definition
Native Americans in the Mississippi River Valley
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Animism
Definition
refers to a belief in numerous personalized, supernatural beings endowed with reason, intelligence and/or volition, that inhabit both objects and living beings and govern their existences
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Slash & Burn Agriculture
Definition
added ash to the soil for temporary benefit, but every few years it was necessary to move to new locations
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Oral Tradition
Definition
refers to the exchange of cultural material through vocal utterance
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Praying Towns
Definition
were developed by the Puritans of New England from 1646 to 1675 in an effort to convert the local Native American tribes to Christianity
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Borderlands
Definition
refer to the Spanish colonial frontier in what later became the United States
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