chapter 8 part 2 vocabulary a region just beyond or at the edge of settled areas frontier
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Chapter 8 Part 2
Vocabulary
a region just beyond or at the edge of settled areas
frontier
government by the people
democracy
one who buys items (such as land) hoping that they will increase in value and, when sold, provide a profit
speculator
departure
exodus
a particular religious group, such as Methodist,
Baptist, orPresbyterian
denomination
ministers or priests
clergy
a clergyman who followed a regular route through an area to preach and attend to other spiritual needs of
the settlers
circuit-riding preacher
actions that deny people their rights because of
prejudice
discrimination
to implant an idea or attitude into a person’s
mind gradually
instill
one who agreed to work for a period of years as a
servant in America in exchange for passage to
the New World
indentured servant
the practice of owning people as property and
forcing those peopleto work for the slaveholder
slavery
to mark trees to indicate the boundaries of a piece of land, to indicate a path,
or to show the way to follow
blaze
a method of claiming an area of land by using a tomahawk or knife to
blaze (mark) trees around the border of the site
tomahawk rights
a method of claiming land by planting and harvesting
a crop ofcorn on the land
corn rights
the practice of removing a band of bark all the way
around a treeto kill the tree and make it easier to remove from the
groundgirdling
a form of shelter where logs were laid against something for support
lean-to
split logs, often set flat side up, to form the floor
of a cabin
puncheons
hulled and dried kernels of corn that have been boiled
hominy
cloth made from a mixture of flax and wool or cotton and
wool
Linsey-woolsey
dialect
the regional form of a language