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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 |
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 service for other goods or services without using money. |
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Export |
A product sent from 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 manufacture products. |
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Mercantilism |
Economic ideas popular in the 1600s and 1700s which suggests that governments 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 worker 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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Uprising |
A rebellion. |
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King Philip's war |
A conflict between the colonists and the Wampanoag tribe, lead by Metacom, who was called King Phillip by the settlers. Metacom suffered a terrible defeat in this war. |
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Ally |
A nation that is a 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 Pontiac. The British crushed the rebellion. |
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Proclamation of 1763 |
An order by King George the 3 of England that blocked colonists from settling lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
