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S.S. Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |