Understanding Key Vocabulary Terms

Boycott

• A protest in which people refused to buy, use, or participate in something.

• ten years

• A shortage of water due to lack of rainfall

• a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides

drought

• ten years

• a shortage of water due to lack of rainfall

• a new idea, piece of equipment, or method

• a narrow waterway, connecting two larger bodies of water

money collected by the government

Expedition

• money collected by the government

• A protest, in which people refuse to buy, use, or participate in something

• ten years

• A journey, especially by a group of people for a specific purpose

A building, statue , or other structure that honors a person, place, or event in history

Something provided to the community, usually by the local government

• decade

• taxes

• public services

• drought

decade

• ten years

• a shortage of water

• money collected by the government

• a new idea