| A | B |
| economy | how people use their resources to get what they need (usually involves money) |
| prosperity | economic success; earning money |
| industry | all the businesses that make one kind of product or promote one kind of service |
| decline | go down; become less |
| exports | goods LEAVING a country |
| imports | goods brought INTO a country |
| direct trade routes | New England colonies and England |
| triangular trade routes | New England colonies, England and West Africa |
| The Middle Passage | the boat ride the African slaves made across the Atlantic Ocean |
| naval stores | products that were used to build and repair ships |