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| town common | park-like square in the center of a new england village where the church, meeting house, and schools where located. |
| public schools | free school funded by taxes and open to all children. |
| southern hospitality | Term for the friendly welcome given strangers by southerners. |
| frontier | Edge of a settled region. |
| squatters | Person who clears and settles a tract of land that he or she does not own. |
| political equality | Principle that all citzens have the right to vote regardless of wealth. |
| democracy | Form of goverment in which power is vested in the people and exercised by them through a system of free elections. |
| seaports | Harbor town whose economy depends upon the sea. |
| slave | Person who is held against his or her will and forced to work for others. |
| British | Being of great Britain, which in colonial days was England, Scottland, Wales or Ireland. |
| peculiar institution | Name some gave to slaveholding. |
| cash crops | Product raised to be sold rather than consumed on Farm. |
| tidewater | Southern Coastal areas where rivers were affected by the ocean tides. |
| naval stores | Product produced from the pine forests of the south, such as pitch us to make ships watertight. |
| fur trade | Early american industry involving the sale of hides and furs to Europe. |
| Yankee ingenuity | Nickname for American knack for solving difficult problems in clever ways. |
| free enterprise | Economics system that encourages people to develop and market their ideas for porfit with little government involvement in the process. |
| triangular trade | Name given to the profitable trade between the Northern colonies, the West Indies , and England although trade did not always flow in a simple triangular fashion. |
