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Ch5 Vocab Review
Social
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Repersantivie government | An electoral system where citizens vote to elect people to represent their interests and concerns. Those elected debate and make laws on behalf of the whole community or society |
| Irqorquois confedarcy | The Iroquois Confederacy was the most powerful group of Native Americans in eastern North America including six nations. |
| Alliance | A close association for a common objective, as of nations, political parties, etc. |
| Mercantilism | Mercantilism is an economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy. |
| Diversity | the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds |
| Apprentice | a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work |
| Immigration | the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. |
| Cash crop | a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower. |
| Subsistence farming | Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow food crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families. |
| Triangular trade | a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports |
| Epidemic | a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. |
| Militia | a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency. |
| Export | send (goods or services) to another country for sale. |
| Import | bring (goods or services) into a country from abroad for sale. |
| Slave code | any of the set of rules based on the concept that enslaved persons were property, not persons. |
| Magna Carta | (Great Charter) is a document insuring English political liberties that was drafted at Runnymede, and signed by King John |
| English Bill of Rights | an act signed into law in 1689 by William III and Mary II, who became co-rulers in England after the overthrow of King James II. |
| Navigation Acts | acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods. |
| Pontiac | an Odawa war chief known for leading Native Americans in an armed struggle against the British |
| King George | King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801 |
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