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America's Past
Unit 5 Social Studies
Term | Definition |
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history | the story of the past and of the people who came before us |
explorer | a person who travels to learn new things like Marco Polo or Christopher Columbus |
journey | a trip (noun) or to travel (verb) |
colony | a place that is ruled by another country like Jamestown, Virginia |
settlement | a small community |
colonist | a person who lives in a colony |
Pilgrim | the name of the first colonists at Plymouth, many of whom belonged to religious group called the Puritans |
independence | being free from the rule of another nation |
hero | a person who does something brave or works hard to help others like Sitting Bull, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Thomas, Edison or Albert Einstein |
invention | something new that someone makes or thinks of |
transportation | any way of moving things or people from one place to another like stagecoaches, streetcars, cars, buses or trucks |
technology | the use of science to make things work better |
communication | any way of sharing information like by mail, stagecoach, telegraph, or telephone |