Chapter 5 Lesson 3 New England Colonies

Lesson 1 Line between the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Coastal Plain that connects waterfalls along the eastern coast of the United States fall line The sparsely populated area on the western side of the fall line backcountry The time of year when it is warm enough to grow plants growing season Coastal area of the south with rivers that rise and fall with the tides tidewater

Lesson 2 Assembly of qualified local voters who hold elections and vote on laws for their communities Town meeting To drive someone out of their home as a punishment banish The government of a community, state, or nation by the people living in that place; a democracy Self-government A person who disagrees strongly or refuses to go along with what his or her leaders believe dissenter

Lesson 3 Buying and selling of human beings Slave trade A business that sells a product or service to other people industry The voyage enslaved Africans made against their will from Africa to the Americas Middle Passage A product that is sold or traded to another country; leaving the country export A product that brought into one country from another country for sale or use; coming into the country import

Skillbuilder vocabulary Another word for facts and numbers data a graph that shows changes in data over a period of time Line graph