| A | B |
|---|
| Number of English colonies | 13 |
| bicameral legislature | a law making body made up of two houses or groups |
| Parliament | the English national legislature |
| town meeting | political event in which all the men from a town gathered to make important decisions |
| libel | false written statement that damages a person's reputation |
| John Peter Zenger | established the colonists' right to freedom of the press |
| mercantilism | creating and maintaining wealth by carefully controlling trade |
| imports | goods purchased from other countries |
| exports | goods sold to other countries |
| Navigation Acts | forbade colonists from trading specific items to other countries |
| duties | taxes paid on goods coming into a country |
| smugglers | people who illegally trade or sold goods |
| triangular trade | trade between England, West Africa, and the Americas |
| Middle Passage | voyage of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to be sold as slaves |
| Quakers | first group to protest the slave trade in the colonies |
| cash crops | crops grown mainly for profit |
| slave codes | laws to control slaves |
| Southern Economy | consisted of cash crops |
| New England Economy | consisted of furs, fish, and shipbuilding |
| Middle Economy | consisted of staple crops |
| staple crops | crops that are continually in demand |
| apprentices | boys who learned from skilled craftsmen |
| scientific method | process of carefull examining natural events and forming theories |
| Ben Franklin | invented bifocals, odometer, long arm |
