HIGH SCHOOL OF AMERICAN STUDIES AT LEHMAN COLLEGE
MR. ELINSON’S U.S. HISTORY I
5Name:
Class Section HUS61H -
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Date:
Reading Schedule: - pgs. 33-37(Exchanges of Agricultural…) by Tuesday October 18th, 2016(Quiz)
- pgs. 37-48(The Pequot War…) by Monday October 24th , 2016(Quiz)
- pgs 48-54(The Caribbean Islands) by Friday October 28th, 2016 (Quiz)
- pgs 54-59(Middle Grounds) by Monday October 31st, 2016 (Quiz)
- pgs 59-63(end of the chapter) by Friday November 4th, 2016 (Quiz)
Our Exam is on ___/___/___
Before we approach the subject it is important that we identify the meanings of key terms used
in the textbook and the class lectures. In order to improve our comprehension of the material this week
we will define these terms at home using our class glossaries as well as our own dictionaries.
 Transplantations  nomadic
 The London
 cultivate
Company
 George Calvert
 Jamestown(1607)  proprietaries
 malaria
 befriended
 Powhatan
 prudently
 debilitated
 “Act Concerning
 rootlessness
Religion”
 Captain John
 Sir William
Smith
Berkeley
 “starving time”  autocrat
 Lord De La Warr  “back country”
 tobacco
 Nathaniel Bacon
 John Rolfe
 patronage
 encroaching
 insurrection
 “headright”
 reneged
 House of
 abide
Burgesses
 constituency
(July 30, 1619)
 Puritan
 precedent
Separatists
 indentured
 emigrating
servants
 Scrooby
 Mayflower
Compact
 Plymouth Rock
 social stability
 heresy
 Fundamental
(December 21, 1620)
Orders of
 depopulated
Connecticut
 Squanto
 Fundamental
 Miles Standish
Articles of New
 William Bradford Haven
 nonconformity
 Roger Williams
 Massachusetts
 secular
Bay Company
 Rhode Island
 Puritans
 Anne Hutchinson
 John Winthrop
 “elect”
 congregation
 “praying
 Congregational
Indians”
Church
 crucial
 pious
 “heathens”
 “a city upon a
 “civilize”
hill”
 plight
 beacon
 dissidents
 theocracy
 The lists will shrink as we come across more of the same terms this year. All words from the text
must be defined in our own words within our summary notes and they will be checked in class
and counted as Home Work on the due dates of the notes.
HIGH SCHOOL OF AMERICAN STUDIES AT LEHMAN COLLEGE
MR. ELINSON’S U.S. HISTORY I
 A vocabulary and terms quiz will be given according to the above dates. The vocabulary word’s
meanings and context will be tested. Work well!