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| a device that enabled navigators to learn their ship's location by charting the position of the stars |
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| a building or group of buildings used to house soldiers |
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| A blade fitted to the muzzle end of a musket; used in close combat |
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| to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (as a person, store, or organization) usually to express disapproval |
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| ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind, and had rudders to improve steering |
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| crops grown to sell to make a profit |
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| to travel all the way around the globe |
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| the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa |
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| the common values and traditions of a society, such as language, government, and family relationships |
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| a steep drop in economic activity combined with rising unemployment |
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| one who differs in opinion, especially with a government or a church doctrine |
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| well-armed mounted soldiers capable of fighting as infantry and/or as heavy cavalry |
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| the climate and landscape that surrounds living things |
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| a small fleet of warships, usually two or more squadrons of small warships |
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| a fast, mediuim sized and well armed warship |
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| a symbolic figure or a character usually incised or carved in relief, writing |
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| infantry soldiers, usually elite British and German regiments that were armed with muskets and grenades |
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| usually small bands of irregular soldiers, often volunteers, that made surprise raids between the lines of an invading enemy army |
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| a bag similar to a knapsack but worn over one shoulder by a soldier to carry personal items |
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| a system set up by the London Company that gave 50 acres of land to colonists who paid their own way to Virginia |
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| German mercenaries serving in the British army during the American Revolution |
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| a person who hunts animals and gathers wild plants to provide for his or her needs |
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| a person who moves to another country after leaving his or her homeland |
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| a colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years |
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| increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money |
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| trade between two or more states |
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| a company or association consisting of individuals organized to conduct a business for gain and having a joint stock of capital represented by shares owned individually by the members and transferable without the consent of the group |
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| underground ceremonial chambers at the center of Anasazi communities |
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| boundary between Spanish and Portuguese territories in the New World |
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| relating to, based on, or tracing descent through the maternal line or mother's side of a family |
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| a system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade |
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| soldiers hired for service in a foreign army |
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| the movement of people from one region to another |
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| armed American patriots ready to fight on a minute's notice during the early days of the Revolution. |
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| an act of assembling for a formal military inspection |
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| the proprietor of a manorial estate (15 acres along the Hudson River) especially in New York originally granted under Dutch rule |
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| a map that indicates the location of landforms like deserts, mountains and plains as well as country borders, major cities, and significant bodies of water |
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| members of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600s to settle in the Americas |
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| Maps designed to show governmental boundaries of countries, states, and counties, the location of major cities, and htey usually include significant bodies of water |
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| a tax that increases in rate as the base increases, the more you make the more you pay |
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| a person who has the legal right or exclusive title to something |
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| above ground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe that were built by Native Americans of the southwestern United States |
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| Protestants who wanted to reform (purify) the Church of England |
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| a tax that decreases in rate as the base increases, the more you make the less you pay; flat tax that everyone pays the same percent |
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| to rescind (take back) or annul by authoritative act |
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| one of a group of 16th and 17th century English Protestants preferring to seperated from rather than to reform the Church of England |
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| the encirclement of a fortified place by an army attempting to capture it |
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| crops grown for personal use |
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| a tax on imports or exports |
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| cone-shaped shelters made of buffalo skins used by Native Americans in the Plains region |
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| images of ancestors or animal spirits; often carved onto tall, wooden poles by Native American peoples of the Pacific Northwest |
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| a treaty worked out by Pope Alexander VI in 1494 to divide any newly discovered land outside of Europe between Spain and Portugal; it moved the Line of Demarcation |
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| rights not to be separated, given away, or taken away; natural rights |
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| wrongful seizures of power |
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| one who journeys in foriegn lands |
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