Chapter 8 Part 2

Vocabulary

a region just beyond or at the edge of settled areas

frontier

government by the people

democracy

one who buys items (such as land) hoping that they will increase in value and, when sold, provide a profit

speculator

departure

exodus

a particular religious group, such as Methodist,

Baptist, orPresbyterian

denomination

ministers or priests

clergy

a clergyman who followed a regular route through an area to preach and attend to other spiritual needs of

the settlers

circuit-riding preacher

actions that deny people their rights because of

prejudice

discrimination

to implant an idea or attitude into a person’s

mind gradually

instill

one who agreed to work for a period of years as a

servant in America in exchange for passage to

the New World

indentured servant

the practice of owning people as property and

forcing those peopleto work for the slaveholder

slavery

to mark trees to indicate the boundaries of a piece of land, to indicate a path,

or to show the way to follow

blaze

a method of claiming an area of land by using a tomahawk or knife to

blaze (mark) trees around the border of the site

tomahawk rights

a method of claiming land by planting and harvesting

a crop ofcorn on the land

corn rights

the practice of removing a band of bark all the way

around a treeto kill the tree and make it easier to remove from the

groundgirdling

a form of shelter where logs were laid against something for support

lean-to

split logs, often set flat side up, to form the floor

of a cabin

puncheons

hulled and dried kernels of corn that have been boiled

hominy

cloth made from a mixture of flax and wool or cotton and

wool 

Linsey-woolsey

dialect

the regional form of a language