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25 Cards in this Set
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Buffer
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An area of land that serves as a barrier
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Borderlands
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The borderlands stretched across what are today northern Mexico and southern United States from Florida to California
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Presidio
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A type of fort
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Permanent
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Long-lasting
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Scarce
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Not plentiful
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Haciendas
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Large estates where they raised cattle and sheep by the thousands
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Self-Sufficient
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Self-Supporting
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Missions
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Small religious communities
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Royal Colony
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Louis XIV declared New France to be this
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Portage
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The French used this method of transportation using birchbark canoes
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Tributaries
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Branch rivers
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Proprietary Colony
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A colony in which only one person owns and rules
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Proprietor
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Owner
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Puritans
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A group of religious settlers living by Christian practices that wanted that to make the religion more pure
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Charter
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A document that gives a person or group of people offical approval to take certain action
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Fundamental Orders
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The first written system of government in North America
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Influence
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The ability people or things have to affect other people or things
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Refuge
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A safe place
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Immigrants
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People who come to live in a country after leaving their home country
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Frontier
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The land beyond the settlements
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Cash Crop
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A crop that people raise to sell to others rather than to use themselves
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House of Burgesses
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Lawmakers made up of wealthy landowners who grew and sold tobacco
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Naval Stores
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Products made from pine tar that was used in building and repairing ships
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Indigo
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A plant from which a blue dye is made
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Debtors
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People who had been in prison for owing money
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