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21 Cards in this Set
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region |
An area defined by its common features. |
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climate |
The usual pattern of weather in a place over a period of time. |
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dissent |
A disagreement |
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proprietor |
A person who owns property or a business. |
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diverse |
Showing much variety |
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barter |
To trade goods or services for other goods or services without using money. |
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export |
A product sent to one country to another to be sold. |
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import |
a product brought into a country to be sold. |
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raw materials |
Resources that are used to manufactures products. |
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mercantilism |
Economic ideas popular in the 1600's and the 1700's which suggested that the government should limit imports but increase manufacturing and exports. |
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triangular trade |
trade routes between Africa, the Americas, and Europe, in which ships carried cash crops, manufactured goods, and enslaved people. |
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artisan |
A worked skilled in a trade, usually done by hand. |
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class |
A societal group |
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slavery |
The practice of owning and controlling people against their will. |
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Middle Passage |
The part of the triangular trade route in which captured and enslaved Africans were sent by ship, under terrible conditions, to be sold in the Americas. |
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upraising |
A rebellion |
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King Philip's War |
A conflict between the colonist and the Wampanoag tribe ,lead by Metacom , who called King Philip by the settlers. Metancom suffered a terrible defeat in this war. |
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ally |
A nation that military partner. |
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treaty |
A formal agreement between countries. |
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Pontiac's Rebellion |
An attack on British settlers in the Ohio River valley led by an Ottawan leader named Pontician. The British crushed the rebellion. |
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Proclamation of 1763 |
An order by King George III of England that blocked colonists from the settling lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
