REGIONS:Southeast vocabulary
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- The business of growing crops and raising animals. (p. R41)
- agriculture
- Something that is grown to be sold for money rather than to be used on the farm where it is grown.
- cash crop
- an event that makes something else happen
- cause
- A mineral found under Earth's surface that is burned as a fuel. (p. 89)
- coal
- A place that is ruled by a distant country. (p. 108)
- colony
- A wall built across a river to control the flow of water or create a lake. (p. 98)
- dam
- Land formed by athe soil that a river deposits as it flows into a larger body of water. (p. 77)
- delta
- An event that happens as a result of another event. (p. 86)
- effect
- A group of lands or peoples ruled by one country. (P. 132)
- empire
- A flat-bottomed sailboat used on the Nile River. (p. 97)
- felucca
- This soil makes it good for growing crops. (p. 97)
- fertile
- The time of the year when the weather is warm enough for crops to grow in a certain place. (p. 83)
- growing season
- Electricity made from flowing water in rivers (p. 99)
- Hydroelectric power
- Not controlled by someone else.
- independent
- All the businesses that make one kind of goods of provide one kind of service. (p. 88)
- industry
- The use of ditches or pipes to bring water to fields. (p. 98)
- irrigation
- A group of workers organized to get better working conditions. (p. 90)
- labor union
- The place where a river empties into an ocean, a lake, or a larger river. (p. 75)
- mouth
- A person hired to watch over workers. (p. 119)
- overseer
- A large farm where cash crops were grown. (p. 119)
- plantation
- All the land that is drained by a river and its tributaries. (p. 75)
- river basin
- The practice of setting one group apart from another by law. (p. 127)
- segregation
- The place where a river begins. (p. 75)
- source
- A system of writing in which each syllable of a word is represented by a symbol. (p. 106)
- syllabary
- The use of skills, ideas, and tools to meet people's needs. (p. 91)
- technology
- A diagram that shows a series of events in the order in which they happened. (p. 116)
- time line
- Any river that flows into another, larger river. (p. 75)
- tributary
- An area such as a swamp or marsh where water is at or close to the surface of the ground. (p. 77)
- wetland
- The land formed by the rich soil that the Mississippi River deposits as it flows into the Gulf of Mexico. (p. 77)
- delta
- A group that push for better working conditions. (p. 90)
- labor union
- This supplies more than half our country's electricity. (p. 93)
- coal
- Cherokee who met to talk and make decisions. (p. 105)
- council
- An old English word for "citizen". (p. 112)
- burgess
- A group of Virginia citizens who made laws for the colony. (p. 112)
- House of Burgesses
- An end to slavery. (p. 123)
- abolition
- A document that states all enslaved people living in the Confederate states were now free. (p. 125)
- Emancipation Proclamation