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4th grade SS
Ch 3 vocabulary 2010
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| expedition | a journey to learn more about the land |
| Northwest Passage | The water route that Europeans once thought crossed North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| colony | a settlement separated from, but under the control of a home country |
| raw material | a natural resource that is later changed to make a product |
| governor | the leader of a colony or a state |
| charter | a written document that gives certain rights from a government or state to a person or group of people |
| cash crop | a crop that people raise to sell rather than to use themselves. |
| export | a product sent from one country to another to be sold |
| proprietor | an owner of a land or business |
| assembly | group of people elceted to make laws and to decide how the colony's money would be spent |
| tax | money that a government collects from its citizens and is used to pay for new services |
| rebel | turn against |
| pirate | someone who robs ships at sea |
| cargo | goods carried from one place to another |
| royal colony | colony ruled by a king |
| immigrant | person who moves from one country to another |
| indentured servant | agrees to work for a colonist without pay for a number of years in exchange for travel to America |
| naval stores | tar, turpentine and other products used to waterproof ships' wooden hulls |
| plantation | large farm that specializes in growing a single cash crop |
| planters | the people who owned plantations |
| slave | a person who is treated as property of another person and made to work without pay |
| revolution | is the sudden change or overthrow of a government |
| Patriots | people favoring independence |
| Loyalists | those loyal to Britain |
| congress | a meeting where laws and decisions are made |
| Declaration of Independence | a statement telling why the colonies wanted to be free from Britain |
| constitution | a plan of government |
| Bill of Rights | a list of rights all citizens should have, such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion |
| compromise | when each side gives up some things it wants so both sides can agree |
| ratify | to accept |
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