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Social Studies
Unit 2 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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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 |