A | B |
Indentured servant | person who works off a debt, 5-7 year contract |
Debtor | person who owes money |
Colony | land controlled by another country |
Settlement | area established for a community |
Economy | process of making and selling goods and services |
Cash rops | plants sold for a profit |
Democracy | government ruled by peoples votes |
Slave trade | capturing and selling people for a profit |
Slave | person with no freedom, treated as property |
Plantations | large farms with one cash crop |
Self governing | citizens pass their own laws and taxes |
Boycott | refusing to buya product |
Self governing | make your own rules |
Assembly | colonial elected leaders |
Legislative | congress- lawmakers |
Magna Carta | rule of law- king is not above th law |
House of Burgess | 1st legislative body in colonies |
Purtains | colonists in Massachusetts |
Charter | law made by the king |
Philadelphia | city of brotherly love |