| A | B |
|---|
| agriculture | the business of farming |
| almanac | a reference book containing facts and figures |
| autobiography | the story of a person's own life written by himself or herself |
| backcountry | the name given to the eastern foothills of the Appalachian Mountains |
| export | to send goods to other countries for sale or use |
| free enterprise | an economic system in which people canown property and businesses and are free to decide what to make, how much to produce, and what price to charge |
| frontier | a word used by colonists and pioneers to describe land on the edge of their settlements |
| import | to bring goods from another country for sale or use |
| industry | all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service |
| Middle Passage | the middle leg of the triangular trade route in colonial times in which captive Africans were shipped to the West Indies to be sold into slavery |
| overseer | a person hired to be the boss of a plantation |
| plantation | a large farm that oftengrows one crop |
| slave codes | rules made by colonial planters that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans |
| slave trade | the business of buying and selling people for profit |
| triangular trade | the three sided trade route between Africa, the West Indies, and colonial New England which involved the slave trade as well as the trading of goods |
