| A | B |
| history | the story of the past and the people who came before us |
| explorer | person who travels to find new things and places |
| journey | a long trip |
| colonist | a person who lives in a colony |
| settlement | a small community started by people from another land |
| colony | a place that is ruled by another country |
| hero | someone who is admired for great courage or doing something important |
| independence | freedom from the rule of another nation |
| pilgrim | one of the English Purtian colonist at Plymouth |
| technology | the use of science to make new things or to make thing work better |
| transportation | the way of moving things or people from one place to another |
| invention | is something new that someone makes or thinks of |