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| language | a set of words used to communicate` |
| oral history | spoken history |
| shelter | a home or other building that protects people from weather |
| explorer | a person who goes to find out about a place |
| religion | a belief system |
| claim | something that is said to belong to you |
| settlement | a new community |
| settler | one of the first people to live in a new community |
| conflict | a disagreement |
| slavery | a system under which people have no choices |
| freedom | the right to make your own choices |
| colony | a settlement ruled by a country that is far away |
| tax | money that people pay to the government |
| revolution | when people fight for a change in government |
| independence | freedom from another country's control |
| constitution | a set of laws that tells how government will work |
| patriotism | a feeling of pride in one's country |
| president | the leader for a country |
| pioneer | people who settle lands |
| civil war | people of one country fighting each other |
| territory | land that belongs to a government but is not a state or colony |
| amendment | a change to something that is already written |
| immigrants | people who come to live in a country from somewhere else in the world |
| history map | a map that shows what a place looked liked at an earlier time |
