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, or Presbyterian 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 people to 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 of corn on the land corn rights
the practice of removing a band of bark all the way around a tree to kill the tree and make it easier to remove from the ground girdling
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