IDEAL Middle School Vocabulary Presentation

1. Colonial Words

2. dissent

3. Disagreement with or opposition to an opinion

4. persecute

5. To treat someone harshly because of that person’s beliefs or actions.

7. toleration

8. The acceptance of different beliefs

9. pacifist

10. Person opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes

12. constitution

13. a formal plan of government

14. debtor

15. Person or country who owes money

16. mission

17. Religious settlement

18. export

19. A good sold abroad

21. import

22. a good bought from foreign countries

23. Why are the U.S. import sections from Saudi Arabia and Iraq so big?

24. What country is in the news because of imports dangerous to animals and people of the United States? What imports (products) from this country have caused harm?

25. smuggler

26. Trading illegally with other nations

27. Have your parents ever caught you smuggling something into your room that they didn’t want you to have?

28. diversity

29. Variety or difference

30. Describe the diversity in our classroom. What it be be like if we were not diverse and we were all the same?

31. literacy

32. The ability to read and write

33. militia

34. A group of civilians trained to fight in an emergency.

36. Why did George Washington need a militia? Why does the United state not need a militia today?