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S.S. Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Charter | An official paper in which certain rights are given by government to a person, group, or business |
Dissent | Disagreement |
Expel | To force to leave |
Consent | Agreement |
Sedition | Speaking in ways that cause other people to work against a government |
Frontier | The lands beyond the areas already settled |
Common | A grassy area shared by the town's people, and used for grazing sheep, cattle, and other livestock |
Town Meeting | An assembly of people in a New England town that made laws and elected leaders |
Free-Market | An economic system where people are free to choose the goods and services they buy and make |
Industry | All the kind of businesses that make one kind of product or offer one kind of service |
Naval Stores | Products used to build ships |
Export | A product that leaves a country |
Import | A product brought into a country |
Triangular Trade Route | Shipping routes that connected England, the English colonies, and Africa |
Middle Passage | The journey millions of enslaved Africans were forced to travel across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the West Indies |