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| apprentice | The name for a young person who learns a skill from a more experienced person. |
| artisan | The term for a skilled worker who makes things by hand. |
| New England | This region's economy was based on products from the forests and the seas. |
| Middle Colonies | The region's economy was based on farm products and valuable minerals. |
| Middle | These colonies were known as the "breadbasket of the colonies". |
| Southern | The economy of these colonies was based on farming because of their warm climate and rich soil. |
| tobacco, rice, indigo | The three main cash crops of the Southern Colonies. |
| indigo | A plant used to make blue dye. |
| Triangular Trade Route | An important colonial trade route named because of the three legs of the journey. |
| guns | On the first leg of the Trianular Trade Route, ships would carry these and other products to West Africa. |
| slaves | Once ships carrying guns to West Africa reached their destination, they would trade their guns and other products for gold and ___________. |
| sugar | On the second leg of the Triangular Trade Route, ships would sail from West Africa to the West Indies and trade their gold and slaves for ____________ and molasses. |
| Middle Passage | The second leg of the Triangular Trade Route was known as the ____________________. |
| rum | On the third and last leg of the Triangular Trade Route, the sugar and molasses were taken back to colonial ports and sold to make ___________. |
| Ben Franklin | He was the famous colonist who lived in Philadelphia. He was a printer as well as an inventor. |
| self-sufficient | The term used for describing people that rely on themselves for most of what they need. |
| town common | The open space in the center of a New England colonial town where cattle and sheep would often graze. |
| plantations | Large, self-sufficient southern farms that grew crops such as rice, tobacco, and indigo. |
| Eliza Lucas Pinckney | The first person to successfully grow a crop of indigo on her plantation in South Carolina. |
| overseer | The person who directed the day-to-day work on a plantation. |
| Harvard University | The oldest college in the United States that is located in New England. |
| Poor Richard's Almanac | The most popular book in the English Colonies next to the Bible. |
| almanac | A reference book that contains facts and figures. |
| Stono Rebellion | The name of a bloody rebellion by a group of enslaved people in South carolina who fought with their slave owners. |
| Olaudah Equiano | A West African slave who gained his freedom and wrote an autobiography about the evils of slavery. |
