Topic 2 Vocabulary

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A crop sold for money at market.

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Cash Crop

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A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company.

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Charter

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An area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land.

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Colony

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A person who cannot pay money he or she owes.

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Debtor

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A group of people who have power to make laws.

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Legislature

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A large farm with cash crops and slave labor.

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Plantation

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A political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.

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Representative Government

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Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights.

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Slave Codes

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Cash Crop

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A crop sold for money at market.

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Colony

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An area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land.