A | B |
alliance | partnership |
raid | surprise attack |
treaty | an agreement between groups or countries |
land grants | gift of land given by the government |
plantations | larges farms |
planters | plantation owners |
indigo | plant used to make dark blue dye to color cloth |
indentured servant | agrees to work for travel expenses |
descendants | peoples children, grandchildren and so on . . . |
debt | money owed to another |
tax | money government collect to pay for services |
boycott | refuse to buy |
loyalist | people who support Britain |
patriat | colonist that did not want british rule |
independence & rights | freedom |
revolution | sudden complete change in Govern. |
interpreter | person that translate what one says from one language to another |
impressed | to force |
negotiate | try to reach an agreement |