chapter 6
Terms
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- oral history
- spoken history
- colony
- a settlement ruled by a country that is far away
- explorer
- a person who goes to find out about a place
- territory
- a land that belongs to a government but is not a state or a colony
- independence
- freedom from another country's control
- civil war
- people from one country fight each other
- tax
- money that people pay to the government
- immigrants
- people who come to live in a country fromsomewhere else in the world
- shelter
- a home or other building that protects them from the weather
- settlement
- a new community
- amendment
- a change to something that is already written
- constitution
- a set of laws that tells how a government will work