A | B |
raw material | a natural resource that can be used to make a product |
ally | a friend |
treaty | an agreement between groups or countries |
land grant | a gift of land from the government |
plantation | large farms |
planter | plantation owners |
indentured servant | a person sho agrees to work for another person without pay for a certain length of time, usually in return for travel or living expenses |
descendant | a person's children, grandchildren, and so on |
fact | a statement that can be checked and proved to be true |
opinion | a statement that tells what the person who made it thinks or believes |
debt | money owed to someone else |
tax | money that a government collects to pay for the services it provides |
representative | someone sho speaks and acts for a group of people |
independence | freedom of a country to govern itself |
right | freedoms |
revolution | a sudden, violent change in government |
interpreter | a person who translates what someone says into another language |
territory | a place owned and governed by a country |
historical map | shows a place at a certain time in history |
hatch lines | a pattern of diagonal stripes, instead of a solid color. Often used to show lands that were claimed by more than one country |