| A | B |
|---|
| mercantilism | Economics theory that a nation should get gold & riches by exporting more than it imports |
| cash crop | crops that are grown to sell |
| Middle Passage | part of the triangular trade when Africans were taken from Africa to slavery in the Americas |
| Columbian Exchange | the transatlantic trade of crops, disease, technology between the Old World and the N. World |
| plantation | large farm on which crops are raised mainly for sale |
| triangular trade | trade between Europe, the Americas, and Africa |
| Georgia | where people jailed for debt could find a safe haven |
| farming and commerce | the main economic activity in the Middle Colonies |
| House of Burgesses | one of the first ex. of representative government in the Colonies |
| Jamestown | first successful British colony |
| French & Indians | fought together in the 7 Year's War |
| Quebec | first permanent European settlement in Canada |
