| A | B |
| agriculture | business of farming |
| export | send goods to other countries for sale |
| import | bring goods to other countries for sale |
| industry | all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service |
| free enterprise | economic system in which people can start any business they want |
| triangular trade | three-sided trade route between Africa, the West Indies, and back to the colonies |
| overseer | a person hired to be the boss of a plantation |
| slave trade | the business of buying and selling people for a profit |
| almanac | a reference book that contains information about stars and weather |
| autobiography | tell the story of a person's own life and is written by himself or herself |
| middle passage | the triangular trade route's middle leg |
| frontier | land on the edge of the colonist's settlement |
| backcountry | rugged land near the Appalachian Mountains |
| plantation | large farm that often grew just one crop |
| slave code | rules made by colonial planters that controlled lives of slaves |