| 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 |