| A | B |
|---|
| Archaeologists | persons who study evidence of North American cultures |
| colonies | settlements by a group in another land |
| emigrate | when a person leaves a place |
| Indentured servants | people unable to pay their own way to the new world |
| exports | goods that leave a country for a foreign markets |
| slave codes | laws that denied slaves basic rights |
| Back country | frontier land along the Appalachian mtns. |
| tenant farmer | worked another's land and paid rent |
| neutral | to not take sides in an issue |
| Patriot | person who supported American Independence |
| ratify | to pass (as in government) |
| cabinet | appointed officials who advise the President |
| centralized power | when government control is localized rather than spread out |
| Judicial branch | interprets the laws |
| Electoral College | voting unit that really elects the President |
| Bill of rights | first ten amendments of the constitution |
| Legislative branch | makes the laws |
| Executive branch | enforces the laws |
| Impressment | forcibly removing sailors from their ships their ships |
| Corduroy roads | roads constructed out of logs |
