Chapter 7 vocabulary Flashcards

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British

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Coming from located in or related to great Britten ( for example the British government or the biritish army ). The most important part of great Britten is the Country of England. For this reason British and English are often meaning the same thing.

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Colonist regions.

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Areas in north amaerica where different kinds of colonies developed because differences in climate and natural features or geography the three colonists regions were New England middle and the southern regions.

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Economy

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The way that a particular region or country organizes the manufacture and exchanges such as money food products and services an economy includes a system of money and all the businesses industries and farms and so on that help to produce sell or trade things in value.

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Democratic

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Controlled or rub by the people themselves with each person having an equal stay. In democratic governments people usually elect representatives to make laws for them and every persons vote counts equally. In some other kinds of governments one person or a few people have the power to rule over everyone else without being elected.

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Diverse

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Different from each other for example the people who settle in the middle colonies were very diverse.

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Indented servants

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Individuals who agreed to to work for an period of time in exchange for a free passage from Europe.

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Grant

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To give someone something he or she asked for. For example the king granted William penn the land called Pennsylvania.

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Assembly

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A group of government officials who meant to make laws

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