| A | B |
|---|
| autobiography | the story of a persons own life |
| Triangular trade | a trade route that went from the colonies to Africa, the West Indies, and back to the colonies |
| export | sending goods to other countries for sale or trade |
| frontier | land on the edge of a European settlement |
| almanac | a reference book that contains information about stars and weather |
| import | bringing goods from another country for sale or use |
| agriculture | the business of farming |
| Anne Hutchinson | Puritan leader who started the Portsmouth settlement |
| Samuel de Champlain | sailed the St. Lawrence River and founded Quebec |
| Junipero Serra | set up missions in California to teach Christianity |
| plantation | large Southern farm that grew only one crop |
| industry | all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service |
| overseer | boss of a plantation |
| slave trade | business of buying and selling people for profit |
| James Ogelthorpe | signed a treaty with Tomochichi |
| Thomas Hooker | started the Connecticut colony |
| portage | land route from one body of water to another |
| mission | settlement where missionaries lived |
| voyageur | transported furs and other goods from one trading post to the next by canoe |
| debtor | a person who owes money to someone |
| proprietor | person who owned land in a colony |
| tolerate | allowing people to have beliefs that are different from your own |
| indigo | plant that produces a blue dye |
| conestoga | large covered wagon |
| covenant | a promise or agreement |
| Treaty of Paris | gave all the land easa document that ended the French and Indian War |
| Proclamation of 1763 | gave all the land east of the Appalachian Mountains to the British colonies |
| Coureur de bois | trapped furs without permission from the French government |
| Roger Williams | founded Rhode Island |
| William Penn | Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania |
| Elizabeth Lucas Pinckey | made indigo a major crop for the Southern colonies |
| Marquette and Joliet | explored the Mississippi River in search of the Northwest Passage |
| Robert La Salle | French explorer who reached the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed it for France |
| George Washington | general in the American Revolutionary War/America's 1st president |
| Jean Baptist Point du Sable | fur trader who founded the trading post near Chicago |
| indentured servants | people who worked as slaves to get their passage to the colonies paid for |
| slave codes | codes that controlled the slaves |
| free enterprise | a system that allows people to start any business they want |
| Middle Colonies | known as the "breadbasket" of the colonies |
| covenant | male Puritans signed this special promise or agreement |
