Social Studies Unit 3
Terms
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- disaster
- Something that happens that causes great harm to a community
- amendment
- A change to something that is already written
- artifact
- An object that we find that was by people in the past
- archaeologist
- Scientists who look for artifacts and try to explain how they were used
- slave
- A person who is owned by another person and works without pay
- canal
- Waterways built by people
- historical society
- A group of people, usually volunteers, who have a special interest in the history of their community
- colony
- A settlement that is ruled by another country
- transportation
- The way something moves from one place to another
- legend
- A story that teaches a lesson or explains something
- empire
- All the land and people under the control of a powerful nation
- artifacts
- A tool or piece of jewelry
- lodge
- Home made from logs, earth, and grass
- teepee
- Triangle shaped shelters made from buffalo skins stretched over poles
- pollution
- Exhaust or smoke from factories and vehicles
- satellite
- A spacecraft that is used to send radio, telephone, and television signals
- century
- 100 years
- causeways
- Roads built on soil piled up in shallow water
- constitution
- A plan of government
- transcontinental
- Something that goes from one side of the continent to the other
- independence
- Freedom from the rules of others, and freedom to make your own rules
- colony
- A settlement that is ruled by another country
- civil war
- A war in which two parts of one country fight each other
- suburbs
- Communities near a city
- revolution
- A fight for a change in government
- revolution
- A fight for change in government
- tax
- Extra money paid for things that are wanted or needed
- communication
- The sharing of feelings, thoughts, and information
- decade
- 10 years
- invention
- Something that has been made for the first time
- reservoir
- A lake used for collecting and storing water
- solution
- A way to solve a problem