| WORD | EXPLANATION |
|---|---|
| AMENDMENT | Change or addition to the Constitution |
| ANTHEM | National song of a country |
| BILL OF RIGHTS | List of rights and freedoms for everyone. The first 10 ammendments to the Constitution |
| BURGESS | Man chosen to make laws for all the colonists |
| CIVIL RIGHTS | Rights of every person to be treated equally |
| CIVIL WAR | Fight between different groups of people in the same country |
| COLD WAR | War fought with words and ideas instead of guns |
| COLONY | Settlement in one country that is ruled by the government of another country |
| COMMUNISM | Kind of government in which people do not have the freedom to choose how they want to live |
| CONSTITUTION | Group of laws that rules a country |
| DEMOCRACY | Kind of government where all people have the same rights and can choose their own leaders |
| HOMESTEADER | Person who lives and farms on land given by the government |
| IMMIGRANT | Person who leaves one country to live in another country |
| INDEPENDENCE | Freedom from the control of others |
| LEGISLATURE | Group of people who make laws |
| PATRIOT | Person who wanted to be free from Great Britain during the American Revolution |
| PILGRIM | Person who makes a trip for religious reasons |
| PLANTATION | A very large farm |
| PURITANS | Group of people who wanted to change the way the English church was run |
| RESERVATION | Land the government sets aside for American Indians to live |
| SETTLEMENT | New place where people live |