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22 Cards in this Set
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Archipelago
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A chain of islands
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Ring of Fire
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The circle of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean
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Coniferous
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A kind of cone-baring tree
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Trade wind
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Winde blowing almost constantly from the northeast toward the equator
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Cay
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A tiny, low-lying island or coral reef
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Coral
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The skeleton remains of tiny sea animals
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Mulatto
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A person of African and European background
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Commercial farming
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A kind of agriculture in which crops are raised for sale
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Abolish
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To end
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Indentured servant
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A person who agrees to work for a certain period of time often in exchange for travel expenses
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Columbian exchange
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The movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ideas between Europe and the Americas in the fourteen hundreds and fifteen hundreds
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Legacy
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Anything handing down from an ancestor
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Limited government
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A government in which everyone, including those in authority, must obey the laws
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Unlimited government
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A government in which no limits are imposed on the ruler's authority
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Federation
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A union of groups or states under a central authority
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States' Rights
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The idea the individual states have final authority over the national or central government
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Guerilla
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An armed person who takes part in irregular warfare
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Civil war
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A war in which groups of people from the same place or country fight one another
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Petition
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A written request for action signed by many people
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Communism
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A governing and economic system in which all property and all means of production belong to the people as a group
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Self-government
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A system of government in which people govern themselves
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Dependency
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An area and its people dependent upon another country
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