| A | B |
|---|
| slavery | making one person the property of another person |
| plantation | huge farms |
| cash crop | crop people raise to sell to others rather than use themselves |
| abolish | to end (as in slavery) |
| Confederacy | group of eleven states who left the Union |
| secede | leave |
| Civil war | war between groups of people in the same country |
| raw material | resource that can be used to manufacture a product |
| international trade | trade among nations |
| import | a good brought into one country from another country |
| export | a good shipped from one country to another |
| Sun Belt | wide area in the southern part of the United States that has a mild climate all year |
| mainland | the continent or part of continent nearest to an island |
| territory | a place owned and governed by a country |
| commonwealth | territory that governs itself |
| tropics | a band of warm climate that circles Earth near the equator |
