Chapter 1
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
The exact location on the Earth's surface
absolute location
When people exchange goods or services without money
barter
permission for something to happen
consent
a crop that is grown for money and not for personal use by the grower
cash crop
the gradual wearing away of the Earth's surface by wind, water or ice
erosion
having no living members
extinct
present or available in large quantities
abundant
a person who argues to end slavery
abolitionist
a layer of rock or sand that can both absorb and hold water
aquifer
people who moved place to place
nomadic
an area of land set aside by the US government for American Indians to live on
reservations
free from someones control
emancipation
a generally flat, treeless landscape that receives low levels of rainfall
plain
the ability to resist disease or infection
immunity
a person who occupies land or property that they do not own
squatter
the act of betraying ones country
treason
to adjust to new conditions
adapt
to make someone the property of another person
slave or enslave
the belief that the United States had the God-given right to to control all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
the right to vote
sufferage