Social Studies -Unit 5 Vocab. Flashcards
The time of year when it is warm enough for plants to grow
Growing season
Where the water in rivers and streams rises and falls with the oceans tides
Tidewater
Rivers from higher land flows to lower lands and often form waterfalls
Fall lime
The mountains area west of where most colonists settled
Backcountry
A gathering where colonists held elections and voted on the laws for their towns
Town meeting
When the people who does not agree with the beliefs of his or her leaders
Dissenter
To force someone to leave a place
Banish
All the businesses that make one kind of service
Industry
A product sent to another country and sold
Export
A product brought into one country from another
Import
The voyage from Africa to the west India
Middle passage
The business of buying and selling human
Slave trade
