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Social Studies
Unit 2 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Settlement ruled by a faraway government | Colony |
| need for a good | Demand |
| amount of good offered for sale (how much there is to sell) | Supply |
| holding people against their will and forcing them to work without pay | Slavery |
| line that divides one area of land from another | Boundary |
| owner | Proprietor |
| person who wants to end slavery | Abolitionist |
| huge farms | Plantations |
| a colony that a king or queen decides who governs | Royal Colony |
| a law making body of the British government | Parliament |
| having someone speak or act as a group of people | Representation |
| refuse to buy | Boycott |
| formal meeting of representatives | Congress |
| volunteer armies | Militia |
| sudden, complete change of government | Revolution |
| money owed to someone | Debt |
| colonists loyal to Great Britain | Loyalists |
| colonists who wanted to be independent of Great Britain | Patriots |