SS8 - Chapter 1 Vocabulary

to join together.

• colonize

• unify

• common good

• teamwork

a northern ocean trade route around North America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

• trade route

• sectionalism

• Northwest Passage

• mercantilism

to treat an individual or group cruelly, especially because of race, or political, or religious beliefs.

• convert

• persecute

• consequence

• indigenous

the interests of well-being of everyone in the whole community.

• sanctuary

• sectionalism

• unify

• common good

something that happens as a result of an action, event or circumstance.

• consequence

• persecute

• convert

• colonize

to change something new or different.

• consequence

• convert

• sanctuary

• missionary

of or relating to the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

• mercantilism

• natural resource

• economic

• sectionalism

an original record of a past event, usually created by someone who actually saw or participated in the event.

• secondary source

• natural resource

• primary source

• missionary

a place of safety, especially in religious worship.

• unify

• common good

• Northwest Passage

• sanctuary

to claim land for a nation by establishing a settlement.

• unify

• colonize

• convert

• missionary