| A | B |
|---|
| merchants | buisiness people who make a living buying and selling things |
| mercantilism | a way nations grew wealthy |
| settlers | people who move into a land to live |
| colony | an area that is ruled by another couty |
| starvation | death from not having enough food |
| permanent | lasting;not going away |
| representatives | the people in government who make decision for the people who elect them |
| House of Burgesses | the lawmaking body in virginia |
| representatives government | a government run by elected official |
| persecuted | treated badly and unfairly,usually because of religion, politics, or race |
| pilgrims | the May flower colonists |
| passengers | the people who travel in a ship,plane,train,or bus |
| self-government | a government that gets its power from the people, not from king or fromforce |
| puritian | a group of English colonistwho wanted religious freedom |
| Massachusetts Bay Company | a business with power from the king of England to set up a colony, pay for it, and make money from it |
| created | build or made |
| attract | drew brought people in |
| plantation | large farm |
| slave | people who are owned and forced to work by someone else |
| slave trade | the buisiness of bullying and selling slave |
| kidnapped | taken away by force |
| property | something that is owned |
| permission | an agrement from some one with power |
| cruel | causing pain and suffering |
