FRA 3rd Grade Social Studies Unit 3
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- suburb
- A community built near a city.
- decade
- A length of time that is 10 years.
- pollution
- Anything that makes the air, land, or water unclean.
- causeway
- A road built on soil piled up in shallow water.
- slave
- A person who is owned by another person and works without pay.
- canal
- A waterway that is built by people.
- transcontinental
- Something that goes from one side of a continent to the other.
- satellite
- A spacecraft that is used to send radio, telephone, and television signals.
- invention
- Something that has been made for the first time.
- lodge
- A home made of logs, earth, and grass.
- colony
- A settlement that is ruled by another country.
- civil war
- A war in which two parts of one country fight each other.
- legend
- A story that explains how something came to be.
- communication
- The sharing of feelings, thoughts, and information.
- historical society
- A group of people, usually volunteers, who have a special interest in the history of their community
- disaster
- Something that happens that causes great harm to a community.
- constitution
- A plan of government,
- amendment
- A change made to something that is already written.
- reservoir
- A lake used for collecting and storing water.
- tax
- The money paid to the government to run a city, state, or country.
- tepee
- An easily moved shelter, made of poles covered with buffalo skins.
- revolution
- A fight for a change in government.
- transportation
- Ways of moving things from one place to another.
- century
- A length of time that is 100 years.
- empire
- The land and people under the control of a powerful nation.
- independence
- Freedom from the rules of others.