Chapter 4 - Key Terms Flashcards
Define Alliance
People or groups forming a peace treaty between each other to work together.
Define clan system
A system that balances loyalty to the clan with loyalty to the nation.
Define clan
A large group of families related to one another.
Define clan mothers
The leaders of the clan.
Define Collective Identity
A shared belief system that often includes the same language, culture, valued, and attitudes.
Define community
The people of a district or country considered collectively, especially in the context of social values and responsibilities.
Define Confederacy
A partnership agreed on by nations or groups of people.
Define consensus
A process made by people having an equal vote.
Define Democracy
A type of government in which everyone has equal rights and freedoms.
Define Direct Democracy
A government in which citizens vote directly on decisions.
Define Equality
Treating everyone the same regardless of such factors such as gender, race, or religion.
Define fairness
Everyone is treated with justice.
Define generations
Successive descendants in a family.
Define Grand Council
50 chiefs who represented the nations of the confederacy.
Define Haudenosaunee
The name of the people of the Six Nations, also called “Iroquois” by French Settlers.
Define hoyaneh
The proper name for a chief of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Define Historical Map
A modern depiction of a place in times past.
Define The Great Law of Peace
The constitution of the Iroquois.
Define Iroquois
A league of Confederacy of tribes in the Northeastern part of America.
Define Matrilineal
Tracing family history and ancestors through mothers.
Define Oneida
One of the nations of the Iroquois confederacy.
Define Participation
The action of taking part in something.
Define Pine Tree Chiefs
Men with special positions in the Grand Council.
Define Physical Maps
Maps that show landforms like deserts, mountains and plains.
Define Political Maps
Maps that show government boundaries of countries and states.
Define Representative Democracy
A government of people elected by the people to represent them and make decisions on their behalf.
Define the Six Nations
The Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, and Tuscarara.
Define the Two Row Wampum Belt
This wampum belt records the meaning of the agreement, which declares peaceful coexistence between the Haudenosaunee and Dutch Settlers in the area.
Define the United Nations
An organization that works for world peace.
Define the Wampum belt
Belts made using wampum beads whose origin can be traced back to Hiawatha, a pre-colonial aboriginal leader.
Define the Wampum treaty
A mutual treaty agreement, made in 1613 between representatives of Five Nations of the Iroquois.
