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Colonial Life
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Substance farming | producing just enough to meet idmeatiate needs |
| cash crop | crop that can be sold easily in markets |
| divercity | variety such as ethnic groups |
| principal | most important |
| rely | depend on |
| triangular trade | trade route between three destinations, such as Britan, West Africa, and the West Indies |
| Slave code | rules focusing on their behavior and punishment of enslaved people |
| representative goverment | a system by which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct goverment |
| suspend | to set aside or temperarily stop something |
| impose | to force on others |
| merchantillism | an economic theory whose goal is building a states wealth and power by increasing exports and accumulating precious metals in return |
| export | to sell abroad |
| import | to bring in from forein markets |
| adapt | to change in response to a new response in conditions |
| immigration | the permanent movement of people from one country to another country |
| epidomic | an illness that affects large numbers of people |
| apprentice | a young person who learns a trade from a skilled craftsman |
| emphasis | a special stress or indivation of importance |
| militta | a military force |
| Iroquois confederacy | a group of native AMerucan nations in eastern North America joined together as a goverment |
| alliance | partnership |
| convert | to change religious beliefs of someone |
| neutral | taking no side |
| allay | reducein strength |
| victual | food |
| civic vertue | the democratic ideals practice and values that are at the heart of citizenship in a free society |