| A | B |
|---|
| slave trade | business of buying and selling people for profit |
| autobiography | story of a person's own life written by himself or herself |
| frontier | word that describes land beyond known settlements |
| apprentice | person who works for a skilled person to learn a trade or art |
| backcountry | in colonial times, the name of the eastern foothills of the Appalachians |
| plantation | large farms often growing one crop |
| slave codes | rules made by colonial planters that controlled the lives of the slaves |
| overseer | boss of a plantation |
| export | send goods to other countries for sale or use |
| agriculture | farming |
| industry | all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service |
| free enterprise | economic system in which people can own property and businesses and are free to decide what to make, how much to produce, and what price to charge |
| triangular trade | 3-sided trade route between Africa, the West Indies, and colonial New England |
| Middle Passage | middle leg of the triangular trade route in colonial times in which captive Africans were shipped to the West Indies to be sold into slavery |
| assembly | law making body |
| legislation | making or passing laws |
| militia | volunteers who fought in times of emergency during the colonial period |
| delegate | member of an elected assembly |
| constable | town officer |
| treason | betrayal of one's country by giving help to an enemy |
