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chapter 5 vocabulary
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| growing season | the time of year when it is warm enough for plants to grow |
| tidewater | where the rivers and streams rises and falls every day with the oceans tide |
| fall line | where the rivers form higher land flow to lower lands and often form waterfalls |
| backcountry | the higher land on the other side of the fall line |
| town meeting | a gathering where colonist held elections and voted on laws for their town |
| self government | when people make laws for them self |
| dissenter | a person who does not agree with the beliefs or his or his leaders |
| banish | to force someone to leave |
| industry | all the buissness that make some kind of product or provide 1 kind of service |
| export | a product sent to another country and sold |
| import | a product brought in to one country to another |
| middle passage | the voyage from Afirca to the West Indias |
| Slave Trade | the buissness of buying and selling human beings |