Unit 4 Vocab

Usurp definition

• A person or group of people that moves from place to place

• The collapse of the French Investment company, company of the West

• A set of laws governing the conduct of the slaves during the French colonial period

• To take or keep something by force, especially without the right to do so

Monarchy definition

• a form of government in which a country is controlled by one supreme ruler, such as a king or queen

• A system that gave an individual a charter ( or contract ) to operate a colony as a business

• A group of people who share a common ancestry, language, name, and way of living

• Young Women that came to Louisiana in 1728 to become wives of the settlers, they brought their stuff in a casket.

Ratify definition

• Large estate or farm

• a ruler with total power over a country

• to make a treaty, agreement, or law official by signing it or voting for it

• Human made items that people of the past used in daily life

Frontier definition

• the right or condition to self government

• a distant, often uncharted area where few people live

• an episode of irregular or unpremeditated fighting

• transferred or gave up

Bicameral definition

• Teardrop shaped weight used for fishing or loom weights for making textiles

• A person who is worked for another person for a period of time in order to pay off a debt

• A person who lives away from his or her native country, either from choice or compulsion

• having two parts; used to describe a branch of government that is divided into two bodies

Civil definition

• (of laws) relating to ordinary citizens and their concerns, rather than laws about crime

• a member of the highest class of society

• A stick with a curved end used for throwing spears farther and faster

• a person who is bound to a life of service for others and who is considered property

Republic definition

• a member of the highest class of society

• A group of people who settle in a distant land but who will keep their ties to their native land

• a country that is governed by elected leaders rather than a king or queen

• The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity of service

Annexed definition

• to take control of and add a region to a country or state

• A ruler with total power over a country

• A particular form a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group

• An economic system in which colonists send raw materials to the mother country in order to benefit the mother country's economy

Neural Strip definition

• Lasted around 8000 to 1000 BC. Is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development.

• portion of land where no country has legal authority over it

• Circles the middle of the earth like a belt

• Inhabiting one geographic area throughout a person's life

Napoleonic Code definition

• The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity of service

• The collapse of the French investment company, company of the West

• Lines circle the earth parallel to the equator

• legal system derived from the civil code established by the French emperor in 1804