| A | B |
|---|
| subsistence farming | When farmers produce only enough to feed and maintain their families |
| export | a product that originates in one place and is sold in another |
| import | a trade product that is brought into a country |
| artisan | a person trained in a skill or labor |
| triangular trade routes | trading route that formed a triangle between West Indies, America, Europe, and Africa |
| agricultural | related to farming |
| cash crop | food crop grown to be sold |
| Conestoga wagon | a type of horse-drawn covered wagon used to transport grain |
| patroon | landowner in the Dutch colonies, received rent, taxes, labor from tenant farmers |
| apprentice | one who is bound to a masster without pay to learn a craft or trade |
| frontier | a thinly settled area on the outer limits of a colony |
| urban | relating to a city |
| rural | countryside, outside of a city |
| Tidewater | the area around slow flowing rivers that are affected by the ocean tides |
| Middle Passage | the forced trip between Africa and America made by enslaved Africans |
| slave codes | laws that denied enslaved Africans most of their rights |
| bill of rights | a document listing essential freedoms guaranteed to all citizens |
| libel | the act of publishing harmful statements |
| mercantilism | the theory that a country's power depends on its wealth |
| Navigation Acts | laws passed by England to control colonial trade |
| legislature | a lawmaking body |
| Nathaniel Bacon | He protested the colonial governor and led a raid against Native Americans |
| John Peter Zenger | His trial protected freedom of the press |
