| A | B |
|---|
| wilderness | a wild, unsettled land |
| meetinghouse | the most important building in a Puritan village |
| self-sufficient | when a group or an individual can provide themselves with everything they need |
| dissenter | people who disagree with established views |
| wampum | Native American money that was made from polished shells and put on strings |
| imports | items bought from distant places |
| triangular trade | the name for the path of shipping that went on between Africa, Europe, and North America |
| Middle Passage | the enslaved Africans trip across the Atlantic Ocean |
| post road | a route used by the postal service to deliver mail |
| shipyard | place where ships are built and repaired |
| proprietor | single owner land or business |
| religious toleration | the freedom of everyone to practice their religions as they wanted to |
| "holy experiment" | Penn's colony of Pennsylvania was called this. It was holy because it was goverened according to Quaker beliefs; it was an experiment because it might not work |
| yeoman | self-sufficient farmers who owned their land |
| backcountry | the unsettled, or wilderness part of each colony, usually beyond the fall line |
| subsistence | a term used to describe farmers who raise just enough food to feed themselves with none left over to sell |
| apprentice | a person who works with an older, experienced person to learn a skill |
| tidewater | the coastal areas of the Southern Colonies |
| cash crop | crops grown just to be sold (in the Southern Colonies it was first tabacco, then rice |
| House of Burgesses | lawmaking body of Virginia |
