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25 'Word Wall' Words
2017 iLEAP Social Studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| culture | a way of living that is special to a group of people (i.e. language, religion, government.) |
| agriculture | growing crops for food |
| economy | when people make, use, and trade goods and services |
| government | when groups of people make laws and live together as citizens |
| merchant | a person who buys and sells goods |
| slave trade | the kidnapping, buying and selling of people for money |
| missionary | a person sent to a new land to spread his or her religion |
| colony | a piece of land controlled by a country on another continent |
| Colombian Exchange | the movement of people, animals, plants and cultures between the Americas (i.e. North America and South America) and the other continents (i.e. Europe, Asia and Africa) |
| monarch | a ruler who controls the rights of others (i.e. king, queen) |
| class structure | the organization of people in society according to wealth and power |
| cash crop | a crop that is grown to sell for money |
| House of Burgesses | the first group of representatives elected by an American colony’s landowners |
| representatives | a person chosen to act on behalf of others |
| Puritan | a colonist who left England to practice religion freely |
| commerce | the buying and selling of products |
| exporting | selling products to another country |
| importing | buying products from another country |
| raw materials | products made by nature, and often turned into manufactured goods (ex. timber, gold, furs) |
| manufactured goods | products made by people, and often created with raw materials (ex. wooden chair, silver watch, fur coat) |
| triangular trade | the triangle-shaped trade pathways between Africa, the Americas (North and South), and Europe |
| slavery | owning and controlling people against their will |
| ally | a friend |
| independence | to be from the control of others (i.e. freedom from slavery, freedom from a monarch’s rule) |
| rights | when your freedom is a part of the law (i.e. you religious right to practice religions freely) |
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