4th and 5th Grade
Colony - an area of land controlled by another,
usually distant, country.
Economic characteristics - traits that are
used to describe the way people use their resources
to meet their wants.
Ethnic group - a group of people who share
a language and similar customs.
Migration - the movement of people from one
country or region to another with the intent of staying
at that place for a long period of time.
Native societies - the first peoples living
in a particular region, for example the Eskimos and
the Indians were the first to inhabit North America.
Political characteristics - looking at the
way people form government policy, choose to govern
themselves and work within the political arena to
get and hold office.
Settlement - a place where people make a
permanent home in a new place.
Settler - a person who makes a permanent
home in a new place. Settlers from many countries
built homes in the English colonies.
Social characteristics - traits that are
used to describe how people live together in a society,
including their traditions, housing, diet, religion,
language, education, and the development of their
art and music.
Society - a group of people bound together
by the same culture or way of life.
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