American History Vocab
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- explorers who received grants from Spain
- conquistadors
- first powered a cotton mill in 1783
- steam engine
- sun-dried mud brick
- adobe
- plantation bosses
- overseers
- petition
- formal request
- British mercenaries
- Hessians
- study of ancient people
- archaeology
- narrow, twisting passage to an ocean
- strait
- gives legal right to inventions
- patent
- hit-and-run war technique
- guerrilla warfare
- united protesters opposed to British rule
- Intolerable acts
- fought the redcoats
- minutemen
- long period of little rainfall
- drought
- soldiers who run away
- deserters
- Bought from foreign markets
- imports
- movement of angry farmers
- Shay's Rebellion
- taxes on foreign imported goods
- custom duties
- money for investment
- capital
- a learning assistant
- apprentice
- a highly developed society
- civilization
- people who refuse to fight
- pacifists