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15 Cards in this Set
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Plantation
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a large farm that raises cash crops.
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Cash Crop
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a crop grown for money rather than personal use.
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Push Pull Facter
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a facter that pushes people out of their native land and pulls then into a new place
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Indigo
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a plant grown in Southern colonies that yields a deep blue dye
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House of Burgesses
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created in 1691, the first representative assembly in the Americian colonies
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Royal Colony
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a colony ruled by governers appointed by a king
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Triangular Trade
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the transatlantic system of trade in which goods, including slaves, were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America
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Irrigate
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to bring water to an area such as a farmland
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Warehouse
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a large building used for storing a surplus
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Surplus
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the amount that remains when use or need is satisfied
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Fertel Soil
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land capable of sustaining abundant plant grouth
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Planter
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the owner of a plantation
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Piedmont
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the fertil land at the foot of a mountian
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Rotation of Crops
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system by which planters moved crops from one fiel to the next to fcilitate the growth of tabacco in the most fertile soil
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Coastal Plain
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a spread of land near bordering an ocean
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