| A | B |
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| cash crop | a crop that is grown to sell for money rather than for use by the grower. |
| money | exchange in the form of coins and paper currency |
| barter | the act of exchanging goods or services without using money |
| credit | to obtain goods or services based on the trust that payment will be made in the future |
| debt | something that is owed or due |
| saving | to put away for emergency, or rainy day |
| colonization | the process of creating a colony |
| slavery | the practice of holding a person in bondage for labor |
| Virginia House of Burgesses | the first representatives law -making body in the English Colonies |
| colony | a body of people living in a new territory, but retaining ties with the mother country |
| plantation | a large farm that raises cash crops |
| Jamestown | the first permanent English settlement in North America (1607) |
