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#29 7th grade vocab
7th grade ss vocabulary flashcards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cash Crops | A crop grown to be sold |
| Conflict | A fight or struggle |
| Rely | To depend on |
| Import | To buy goods from foreign markets |
| Export | To sell goods to foreign markets |
| Enslavement (in America) | A time in history where hundreds of thousands of Africans were taken from their homeland and forced against their will to perform hard manual labor |
| Equality | The idea or the state of everyone legally having the same rights |
| Freedom | having the liberty or power to determine the manner in which someone accesses their civil liberties |
| Voyage | To travel a long distance, especially by water |
| Indentured Servant | Someone who signs a contract that binds them to a determined period of work in return for travel expenses to the Americas |
| Mercantilism | Economic policy under which trading nations generated wealth and power by exporting manufactured goods in exchange for gold; system where colonies use natural resources to make money for the mother country. |
| Primary Source | source comes from time period it is describing: the person who made it was there |
| Secondary Source | source comes from after the time period it is describing; analyzes/interprets event |