A | B |
export | goods that are sent out to be sold into different countries |
import | goods that come into a country |
Piedmont | region of rolling hills |
Indenttured Servents | person who signs a contract to work for a set number of yearsin exchange for ocean passage to the colonies |
smuggle | to import or export illegally |
backcountry | frontier region located along the eastern slope of the Appalachian Mountains |
Triangle Trade | Three way colonial trade route between the colonies, the islands of the Caribbean and Africa |
Tidewater | flat lowland that includes many swampy areas |
Cash crop | any crop that is considered easily marketable |
Navigation Acts | The trade laws |
Writs of Assistance | court order that alllowed officials to make searches without saying for what they were searching |
subsistence | Fending for yourself |