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25 'Word Wall' Words
2017 iLEAP Social Studies
Term | Definition |
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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) |