| A | B |
|---|
| economy | how people make a living |
| export | sending goods to other countries |
| import | bringing goods from another country |
| indentured servant | person who agreed to work for 5-7 years to pay for passage to the colonies |
| free enterprise | economic system of the English colonies |
| triangular trade | trade route between New England, Africa, and the Caribbean |
| Middle Passage | slave trip from Africa to America |
| wheat & corn | major Middle Colonies exports |
| lumber & fish | major New England exports |
| tobacco & rice & indigo | major Southern Colonies exports |
| islands in the Caribbean where slaves worked on sugarcane plantations | West Indies |
| primary source | firsthand account of an event |
| Philadelphia | largest colonial city by 1775 |
| plantation | large farm that grew one crop |
| population | number of people living in a place |
| apprentice | person learning a trade from a master craftsman |
| religious freedom | why the first colonists came to New England |
| economic opportunity | why most colonists came to Virginia |
| debtors | people who owe money |
| Georgia | colony founded for poor people |
| Pennsyvlania | colony founded by Quakers |
| Maryland | colony where Catholics settled |
| New York | colony formerly called New Amsterdam |
| Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams | founder of the first settlements in Rhode Island |
