Social Studies ~ Unit 2, Lessons 1-5 Vocabulary
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1. Culture ~ a way of life shared by a group of people
2. Settler ~ a person who moves to find land
3. Slavery ~ forcing people to work without pay and without freedom
4. Colony ~ a place that is ruled by another country
5. Tax ~ money paid to a government for services
6. Constitution ~ a plan of government
7. Explorer ~ a person who goes to a new place to find out about it
8. Frontier ~ the far edge of a country where new people are just beginning to settle
9. Pioneer ~ the first of a group of people to settle in an area
10.Territory ~ an area of land owned by a country
11. industry-a business that makes one kind of product or provides one kind of service
12. immigrant-a person who comes from one country to live in another
13. discrimination- when people are treated unfairly because of how they look or what they believe
14. transcontinental-a railroad that runs across a continent
15. manufacture- to make something using machines