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5SS Ch. 5 vocab
Question | Answer |
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growing season | the time of year when it is warm enough for plants to grow |
tidewater | the waters in rivers and streams that rises and falls every day, with the tide |
fall line | the line where rivers from higher land flow to lower land and often form waterfalls |
backcountry | the land "in back of" where most colonists settled |
town meeting | a gathering where colonists held elections and voted on the laws of their town |
self-government | when people make laws for themselves |
dissenter | someone who does not agree with his or her leaders |
banish | to force someone to leave |
industry | all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service |
export | a product that is sent to another country and sold |
import | a product brought into one country from another |
Middle Passage | the voyage of enslaved Africans from Africa to the West Indies |
slave trade | the business of buying and selling human beings |