4 th Social Studies Ch. 5 Vocabulary Mrs. Thornburg’s version
Vocabulary Terms 4 th Grade Social Studies Ch. 5 Growing SeasonTidewater Fall LineBackcountry Town MeetingImport DissenterBanish Middle PassageExport Self-GovernmentIndustry Slave Trade
What is another word for forcing someone to leave?
Banish
What do we call a person who does not agree with the beliefs of his or her leaders?
Dissenter
What do we call the voyage from Africa to the West Indies?
Middle Passage
What do we call the business of buying and selling human beings?
Slave Trade
What do we call the time of year when it is warm enough for plants to grow?
Growing Season
What do we call the area “in back of” where most colonists settled?
Backcountry
What do we call all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service?
Industry
What do we call a government in which people make laws for themselves?
Self-Government
What do we call the water in the rivers and streams that rises and falls every day with the ocean’s tides?
Tidewater
What do we call a product sent to another country and sold?
Export
What do we call a gathering where colonists held elections and voted on the laws for their towns?
Town Meeting
What do we call a product that is brought into one country from another?
Import
What do we call it when rivers from higher land flow to lower lands and often form waterfalls?
Fall Line