1st Semester Study Guide

6th Grade

Carbon Dating

• Way to date artifacts

Artifacts

• Things left behind by early people

Maize

• An early form of corn

Migration

• Movement of a group of people

Nomads

• People who move from place to place

Pacific

• Means “Peaceful”

Circumnavigate

• To sail around to world

Leif Eriksson

• Viking Sailor

Christopher Columbus

• Admiral of the Ocean Sea

Portuguese

• Leading explorers in the 1400’s

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• 1st written constitution in America

Patroons

• Wealthy landowners

Croatoan

• Carved on a gatepost at Roanoke

General Court

• Jamestown colony stockholders

Metacomet

• Also known as King Phillip

Militia

• Civilian soldiers

Jeffrey Amherst

• Brittish Commander

Pontiac

• Ottawa chief

Shipbuilding

• Important New England industry

William Pitt

• Oversaw the war effort from London

Stamp Act

• Taxed printed material

Samuel Adams

• Made propaganda posters

Committees of Correspondence

• United protesters opposed to British rule

Captain John Parker

• Leader of the minutemen

Richard Henry Lee

• Proposed that the colonies be free

Margaret Corbin

• Patriot fighter

Henry Hamilton

• The “hair buyer”

Lemuel Hayes

• African American patriot

Thaddeus Kosciusko

• A polish person who contributed to the American war effort

Charles Cornwallis

• British commander of Southern forces

John Locke

• Believed all people had natural rights

Baron de Montesquieu

• Proposed that government powers be separate and balanced

James Madison

• Author of the Virginia Plan

Edmund Randolph

• Introduced the Virginia Plan

Roger Sherman

• Proposed the Great Compromise

Pinckney’s Treaty

• Free navigation of the Mississippi

Whiskey Rebellion

• Armed protest

Jay’s Treaty

• Treaty that did not deal with impressment

Caucuses

• Political meetings

Aaron Burr

• Jefferson’s running mate in 1796

York

• Explored with Lewis and Clark

Stephen Decatur

• Burned the “Philadelphia”

Judiciary Act of 1801

• Set up regional courts

Federalists

• Political party that lost the publics respect

War Hawks

• Group that took over the Republican Party

John Quincy Adams

• James Monroe’s secretary of state

Andrew Jackson

• Invaded Spanish East Florida in 1818

Daniel Webster

• Favored the Tariff of 1816

Miguel Hidalgo

• Mexican revolutionary

Missouri Compromise

• Negotiated by Henry Clay