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13 Cards in this Set
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Urbanization
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the movement of people from rural areas into cities
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Suburb
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outlying surrounding a city
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Urban sprawl
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the spreading of urban devolvement's on undeveloped land near a city
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Megalopolis
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a "great city" made up of several small and large cities
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Underground Railroad
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an informal network of safe houses in the united states that helped thousands of enslaved people escape to freedom
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Loyalists
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a colonist who remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution
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Maritime Provinces
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Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island
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Prairie Provinces
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Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta
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Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver Edmonto
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Major Canadian cities Toronto(industrial and financial center) Montreal(industrial and shipping center) Vancouver(handles trade between Asia and Canada) Edmonton(grew with the development of the petroleum industry)
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Parliament
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in Canada national legislature made up of the senate and the house of commons
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Quebec
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a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level
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Nunavut
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the largest and newest federal territory of Canada
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NAFTA
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The North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America
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