Thanksgiving Vocabulary

A collection of vocabulary flashcards related to Thanksgiving, covering key terms and their definitions relevant to the historical and cultural context of the holiday.

Separatist

A person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender.

Emigrant

A person who leaves their own country to settle permanently in another.

Indigeneity

The fact of originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; being native.

Patron

A person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.

Tribal

Relating to a tribe or tribes.

Sachem

The title of a supreme chief among some of the Algonquian peoples of the northeastern United States.

Plymouth

The place where the Pilgrims landed in 1620.

Wampanoag

The Native American tribe that helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter.

Settlement

A place, typically one that has hitherto been uninhabited, where people establish a community.

Jurisdiction

The official power to make legal decisions and judgments.

Frontier

A line or border separating two countries; or, the extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness.

Sojourn

A temporary stay.

Narrative

A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

Quakers

Members of a historically Christian group known as the Religious Society of Friends.

Governor

An official appointed to govern a town or region.

Intermediary

A person who acts as a link between people in order to try to bring about an agreement; a mediator.

Arbitrator

An independent person or body officially appointed to settle a dispute.

Puritan

A member of a group of English Protestants who regarded the Reformation as incomplete.

Displacement

The action of moving something or someone from its place or position.

Mayflower

The ship that transported the first English Pilgrims from England to the New World in 1620.

Legislature

An officially elected or otherwise selected body of people with the responsibility and power to make laws for a state or country.

Assimilation

The process by which a person or people acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group.

Sustenance

Food and drink regarded as a source of strength; the maintaining of someone or something in life or existence.

Communion

The sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feelings.

Provincial

Of or concerning a province of a country or empire; associated with an area outside the capital city.