Key+Terms

- Assimilate- Absorb or intergrate to use for one's own use. - Boarding- a school where the students would live a the school - Botanical- Scientific study of plant life. - Chain Mail- Metal chain links woven together to protect the wearer from sharp objects. - Commerce-the buying and selling of goods - Confluence-flowing together of two or more streams - Eminent Domain-the government right to use private property for public use - Entrepreneur- Someone who organizes a business venture and assumes risk for it. - Manifest Destiny- The belief that the United States was destined to spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific. - Monarchy- A government in which a single person, the Monarch, is in control of the state or country. - New World- A columbus-era term for North America. - Ration- The controlled distribution of scarce resources. - Reservation- A land managed by Native American Tribes under the control of the United States Government. - Sanitation- Preventing human contact with hazardous materials. - Sovereign Right- The right for complete political control over something. - Synonymous- Similar in meaning. - Transcribe- To make a written copy of. - Vocation- A calling to a particular work or occupation.