A Young People's History (Chapters 1-3 Vocabulary)

What is the correct definition of a colonist?

• A person who is indigenous to an area.

•  A  person who migrates to and settles in an area that is either inhabited or uninhabited with people.

• The act of violent or open resistance to an established government or order.

In a society social class is...

•  The lowest group in the social order of a country. This group consists of the poor and unemployed.

• A group of people within a society (community, country, etc.) who have the same level of education, income, type of job, etc.

An indentured servant was...

• Was a person who agreed upon term of unpaid labor that usually paid off the costs of the servant’s immigration America.

• An enslaved person.

• A servant who was forced into the position through violence.

Someone's status is...

• How wealthy they are.

• Their position within a society.  

• Their job.

• Their age.

When a group or community is oppressed, that means what?

• They are kept down by cruel or unjust use of power.

• They are considered to be of a high status.

• They are choosing to be an indentured servant.

One of the racial minorities in the United States is Indigenous people. This means what about Indigenous people?

• That they are part of a conspiracy of resistance.

• That they hold a great deal of political power.

• That they are probably subject to discrimination.

Christopher Columbus was...

• An Italian explorer who made friends with the Indigenous people of the Americas and who prevented centuries of colonization.

• An Italian explorer who discovered India and became very wealthy.

• An Italian explorer who stumbled upon the Americas and whose journeys marked the beginning of centuries of transatlantic colonization.

Colonization is the process of...

• Winning a war.

• A country taking control of another country or region by establishing a permanent settlement in that area in order to gain money and power.

• A country stopping another country from establishing permanent control of another country or region.

Genocide is...

• The accidental killing of a large number of people from a particular group or nation.

• Always the result of war.

• The intentional killing of a large number of people from a particular group or nation with the goal of destroying that group or nation.

An uprising is...

• Accepting the state of things, even if it is unjust.

• Another way to describe running for political office.

• An act that always results in war.

• The act of resistance; pushing back against an injustice.