| A | B |
| House of Burgesses | 1st representative assembly in America;start of republicanism |
| slave | person who is not granted human status; in America a racial structure |
| Triangular Trade Route | New England molasses to Africa for slaves to West Indies for rum |
| Plantation System | agricultural system of farming to raise crops for cash |
| Indentured Servant | Someone who traded passage to America for 7 years of their lives in servitude |
| Exports | Trade goods going out of a nation |
| Imports | Trade goods going in to a nation |
| Joint Stock Company | economical merger between investors hoping to make money |
| mercantilism | English economic theory that colonies existed to serve mother nation |
| cash crop | crops grown just to make money |
| First Great Awakening | religious movement in early 1700s responsible for development of education and social services |
| Representative Government | Republicanism - voters elect people to represent them |
| proprietary colony | king gives land in exchange for yearly payment |
| royal colony | king chooses governor who rules colony |