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SS Colonial Economy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Subsistence farming | producing just enough to meet imedite needs |
| cash crops | a crop that can be sold easly in markets |
| Diversity | Variety, such as of ethnic or national groups |
| principal | most important |
| rely | to depend upon |
| triangular trade | trade route between three destinations, such as Britain, West Africa, and the West Indies |
| slave code | rules focusing on the behavure and punishment, of enslaved people. |
| Representative goverment | a system by which people elect delegates to make laws and a conduct government |
| suspend | to set asside or temporarily stop operation of Somthing |
| impose | to force on others |
| Mercantilism | an economic theory whose goal is building a states welth and power by increasing exports and accumulating presious metals in return |
| exports | to sell abroud |
| imports | to bring in from foreign markets |
| immigration | the permanent movement of people into one country from other nations |
| epidemic | an illness that afects large numbers of people |
| appentence | a young person who learns a trade from a skilled craftsmen |
| adapt | to change in response to a new set of conditions |
| emphasis | a special stress or indication of improtance |
| militia | a milatary force made up of ordinary citizens |
| Iroquois confederary | a group of native Americans nations in eastern North America joined together under one general governmental |
| alliance | partnership |
| civic virtue | the democratic ideas, practices and values that are at the heart of citizenship in a free society |
| allay | to reduce in strength |
| Victual | food |