| A | B |
|---|
| colony | An area that is ruled by another country |
| resoursce | something in a place that people use to help them live |
| slave | a person who is owned and forced to work by someone else |
| persecution | the harm people suffer because of who they are |
| merchants | business people who make a living buying and selling things |
| settlers | people who move into a land to live |
| representatives | the people in government who make decisions for those who elect them |
| House of Burgess | the group that made laws in the Virginia Colony |
| Representative government | a government run by elected officials |
| Pilgrims | the Mayflower colonists |
| Puritans | a group of English colonists who wanted religious freedom |
| Massachusetts Bay Company | a business with power from the king of England to set up a colony, pay for it, and make money from it |
| plantation | a large farm |
| slave trade | the business of buying and selling slaves |
| kidnapped | taken away by force |
