| A | B |
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| autobiography | The story of a person's life. |
| slave trade | The business of ;buying and selling people for profit. |
| export | Send goods to another country for sale or trade. |
| import | To bring goods from another country for sale or use. |
| agriculture | The business of farming. |
| free enterprise | People start any business they want, decide what to make, how much to produce, and what price to charge. |
| industry | All the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service. |
| triangular trade | The colonial trade routes that formed a triangle. |
| Middle Passage | The middle part of the triangular trade route. |
| plantation | A large farm that grows one crop. |
| slave codes | Rules that took from the slaves many of the rights that most free people in the colonies enjoyed. |
| overseer | The boss of the plantation. |
| climograph | A graph that shows information about the temerature and precipitation of a place over time. |
| frontier | A word used by colonists to describe land on the edge of European settlements. |
| almanac | A reference book that contains information about the stars and the weather. |
| backcountry | The name the colonists gave to the rugged land near the Appalachian Mountains. |
