| A | B |
|---|
| abolitionist | person who wanted to end slavery |
| Battle of cowpens | British were defeated in South Carolina on January 17 1781 |
| regions | areas that have something in common |
| Montezuma | Aztec empiror |
| Christopher Columbus | acrossed the Atlantic in the 1400's |
| foothills | low hills at the base of a mountain |
| climate | the usual wheather pattern of a area in a long period of time |
| Michelangelo | created beatiful paintings and drawings |
| timberline | elevation above which trees can not grow |
| basin | area of land surrounded by lands of higher elevation |
| delta | land built up from soil carried down stream by a river and deposited at its mouth |
| penisula | body odf land almost surrounded by water |
| seacoast | land lying next to a sea or ocean |
| Phocahontas | daughter of cheif Powhatan |
| maize | th first corn |
| adobe | building material made of earth and straw |
| shamans | religious leaders |
| tepees | coned shaped tents |
| pilgrims | a term for travelers with a religious goal |
| Lord Baltimore | catholic better known as George Calvert |
| patroons | landowners |
| enlightment | age of reason |
| indigo | a plant that produces a blue dye |
| export | sell it elsewhere |
| Rodger Williams | a young minister |
| apprentice | trainee |
| Nathanial Bacon | a planter on the Virginia frontier |
| legislature | law making body |
| John Locke | English writer |
| compromise | an agreement acceptable to both sides |
