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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 services for other goods or services without using money. |
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export- |
A product sent from one country from 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 1600's and 1700's which suggested 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 Phillip's War- |
A conflict between the colonist 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 settles 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 III of England that blocked colonist from settling lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. |