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CCPS Colonial America Unit
Vocabulary that supports the CCPS 5th grade Colonial America unit
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History
5th Grade
07/10/2011

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Text Feature
Definition
An important feature of literacy and informational text that helps the reader make meaning of the text.
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Artifacts
Definition

objects made by groups of humans, such as tools and clothes.

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Cultures
Definition
ways of living for different groups of people
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Region
Definition
an area with particular geographic, social, etc, characteristics
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Settlement
Definition
small communities that are started in a new place
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Compact
Definition
an agreement
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Colony
Definition
places ruled by another country, not by their own people
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Colonists
Definition
people who settle in colonies
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Diverse
Definition
different from each other
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Indentured Servant
Definition
individuals who agreed to work for a period of time in exchange for free passage from Europe
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Plantation
Definition
large area of privately owned land where crops were grown by the labor of workers or slaves that lived on the land
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Slave
Definition
a person who is owned by and forced to work for another person
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Triangular Trade
Definition
triangular shaped trade route from the English colonies, the West Indies, Africa and Europe
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