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ch.4 vocab.
social studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| back country | ran along the appalacian mountians though for western part of the other regions |
| substinces farming | produced just enough food for themselves and th |
| triangular trade | name given to trade route with three spots |
| navigation acts | 1651 had major provisions to ensure that england made money from the colonies trade |
| smuggling | importing or exporting illegal goods |
| cash crops | crop that were raised to be sold for money |
| gristmill | millers that crushed grain between heavy stones to produce flour or meal |
| diversety | or a variety in its people |
| artisans | or craftspeople became iron workers,and makers of glass |
| conestoga wagons | to carry or produce to town |
| indigo | a plant that yeilds a deep blue dye |
| eliza lucas | a young woman had intoduced indigo as a succesful plantation crop after her father sent her to supervise his south carolina plantations when she was 17 |
| overseeers | were mennhired by planters to watch and direct the work of slaves |
| stono rebellion | was one of the many angry and fustrated slaves by the loss of freedom and they rose up to rebellion |
| appalation mountians | reigion of dense forest and rushing streams stretch easter canada south to alabama |
| fall line | were aterals prevent large boats from moving farther up river |
| piedmount | means "foot of the mountians" it is the broad platue that leads to the blue ridge mountians of the appalation range |
| clans | a large group of families (sometimes in thethousands) that claim a common ancestor |