Social Studies Review Vocabulary

A crop grown in large quantities for sale to other people

• Trade

• Cash Crop

• Plantation

• Farm

Objects made by groups of humans, such as tools and clothes. They help us understand the way of life of the groups who made them.

• Pottery

• Archaeologist

• Big game

• Artifacts

Money that is owed to someone else.

• Debt

• Profit

• Opportunity Cost

• Good

People who travel to new, unexplored land to learn what these places are like and document characteristics.

• Puritans

• Explorers

• Quakers

• Indentured Servants

To reject a bill. Only the president has this power.

• Act

• Ratify

• Amend

• Veto

Important parts of Earth's surface, such as mountains, hills, plains, and rivers.

• Latitude

• Human Characteristics

• Physical Features

• Continents

To settle a conflict in which both sides must give up something (doesn't totally get his/her way).

• Cooperation

• Compromise

• Assembly

• Adaptation

Individuals who agreed to work for a period of time in exchange for a passage from Europe to the new world.

• Cooper

• Indentured Servant

• Overseer

• Parliament

People or countries who help each other, particularly in times of war.

• Allies

• Branches

• Explorers

• Migrants

An agreement between countries

• Allies

• Act

• Law

• Treaty