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Georgia Studies Vocabulary. Week 10. 1) Bail. Security given for temporary release from prison. 2) Crime. An act of breaking the law. 3) Evidence. Proof concerning a case presented at a trial. 4) affidavit. A sworn statement under oath. 5) Plea.
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Georgia Studies Vocabulary Week 10
1) Bail • Security given for temporary release from prison
2) Crime • An act of breaking the law
3) Evidence • Proof concerning a case presented at a trial
4) affidavit • A sworn statement under oath
5) Plea • The defendant’s response to being accused of a crime
6) appeal • A request to review a case in a higher court
7) suspect • A person thought by police to be involved in a crime
8) fine • A sum of money a defendant is ordered to pay
9) sentence • The punishment for a person found guilty of a crime
10) testimony • A statement made by a witness under oath
Vocabulary Week 11
1) Archeologists • dig into earth to find artifacts that tell us about early inhabitants
2) artifacts • Pottery pieces, weapons, tools, jewelry, or other items made by people
3) Shale • Layered rock that can encase ancient animals or birds
4) Ice Age • a period of time in which temperatures on earth were very cold, and North America was covered by glaciers.
5) Glaciers • large, slow moving sheets of ice
6) Paleo • from Greek, “Very Old” • Also called Old Stone Age • 10,000-8000 BCE
7) Megafauna • Large mammals like mammoths and mastodons
8) Archaic • Old
9) middens • Trash heap
10)Anthropologist • A person who uses artifacts, cave drawings, well-traveled pathways, and oral history to study the cultures of a group
Vocabulary Week 12
1) conquistadors • Spanish soldier – explorers, especially those who conquered the native people of Mexico and Peru
2) colony • A new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land
3) missionaries • People who travel to a territory or community in order to make converts to their religion
4) trappers • Adventurers who capture and kill animals, such as beavers, for their fur
5) Columbian Exchange • The transfer of people, plants, animals and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean triggered by the voyages of Christopher Columbus.
6) presidios • Spanish walled forts where small bands of soldiers lived in order to protect Spain’s claim to an area.
7) Ponce de Léon • Spanish explorer who had sailed with Columbus. Set off to find the fountain of youth. Landed on La Florida in April 1513. Returned 8 years later with 200 men to establish a Spanish colony.
8) Jacques Cartier • In 1534, explored the Atlantic coastline of North America. He was looking for a Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. Claimed what is today Canada for France.
9) confederacy • A group of people who band together for political or military strength
10) clan • A group of people with a common ancestor
Vocabulary Week 13
1) Mocama chiefdom • Translates to “saltwater people” • Occupied the area south of the Altamaha River and into areas of what is now North Florida • Spoke Timucua
2) Guale chiefdom • Occupied the coast from the Ogechee river south to St. Simons Island • Spoke the Muskogee language
3) friars • A male member of the Roman Catholic Church who has dedicated his life to the service of the church, lives on donations
4) mass • In the Roman Catholic Church the celebration of Eucharist • Eucharist is communion
5) friary • A place where a friar or friars live.
6) Franciscan • An order of friars that was founded by St. Francis
7) repartimiento • in colonial Spanish America, a system by which the crown allowed certain colonists to recruit Indians for forced labour.
8) Yamasee Indians • The Yamasee were a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and later in northeastern Florida
9) pirate • a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea
10) kinship • the state or fact of being of kin; family relationship
Vocabulary Week 14
1) debt • Something that is owed
2) debtor • a person who is in debt or under financial obligation to another
3) charter • A legal document that grants special rights and privileges
4) trustees • People who hold responsibility on behalf of others
5) humanitarian • having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.