| A | B |
|---|
| stock | a share of ownership in a business |
| prosperity | economic success |
| cash crop | a crop raised to sell rather use yourself |
| legislature | lawmaking branch of government |
| burgess | representative in the legislature of colonial Virginia or Maryland |
| compact | an agreement |
| pilgrim | person who makes a journey for religious reasons |
| self-rule | control of ones own government |
| majority rule | political idea that the majority (most) of an organized group should have the power to make decisions for the whole group |
| Puritan | member of the Church of England who settled in North America to follow Christian beliefs in a more "pure" way |
| charter | official paper in which certain rights are given by a governement to a person, group or business |
| triangular trade route | shipping route that linked England, the English colonies in North America and the west coast of Africa forming an imaginary triangle in the Atlantic Ocean |
| indentured servant | person who agreed to work for another person without pay for a certain length of time in exchange for passage to North America |
