Chapter 4 Vocabulary Assessment

producing just enough to meet immediate needs

• commercial farming
• agribusiness
• industrial farming
• subsistence farming

a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower. Will make a lot of $$$$

• money crop
• profit crop
• cash crop
• commercial crop

a trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa and Britain

• Circular Trade
• Straight Trade
• Triangular Trade
• Square Trade

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

• Black Codes
• Segregation Laws
• Jim Crow Laws
• Slave Codes

a government in which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government

• direct democracy
• dictatorship
• monarchy
• representative government

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver ( by selling more goods than they bought (export more than import)

• communism
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• socialism

send (goods or services) to another country for sale.

• shipping
• exporting
• importing
• transporting

to bring a product into a country to be sold

• export
• distribute
• import
• manufacture

the permanent movement of people into one country from other nations

• emigration
• migration
• immigration
• exodus

A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease that effects a lot of people

• epidemic
• outbreak
• contagion