PA Studies Weekly Week 3 Vocabulary

What means

• the act of trading something for goods without 

using money

• market

• bartering

• trading center

• canal

What means

• special beads made of polished shells and used 

as money by Native American tribes

• wampum

• toll

• pike

• producers

What means

• passages dug to connect rivers

• profits

• scarce

• surplus

• canal

What means

• a road using tolls and pikes to allow travel for only 

those who pay

• poll

• pike

• turnpike

• traditional system

What means

• people who receive the goods for use

• producers

• consumers

• surplus

• scarce

What means

• items for trade

• bartering

• profits

• goods

• toll

What means

• people who make items for trade

• producers

• consumers

• surplus

• scarce

What means

• slopes

• market

• trading posts

• canal

• inclined planes

What means

• resources less available than what is needed or 

demanded

• producers

• consumers

• surplus

• scarce

What means

• where two or more travel routes cross

• wampum

• turnpike

• junction

• traditional system