| A | B |
|---|
| autobiography | the story of a persons life, written by that person |
| slave trade | the business of buying and selling people for profit |
| export | to send goods to other countries for sale or trade |
| import | to bring goods from another country for sale or use |
| agriculture | the business of farming |
| free enterprise | a system in which people can start any business they want |
| industry | all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service |
| triangular trade | trade route taking guns,rum from Boston to Africa, getting slaves from Africa, taking them to the West Indies, trading them for molasses and going back to Boston to start again |
| Middle Passage | the middle part of the triangular trade route from Africa to the West Indies |
| plantation | large farms that grew one crop |
| slave codes | rules that planters made that denied basic rights to slaves |
| overseer | the boss of the plantation, who told the slaves what to do and meted out punishment |
| frontier | land on the edge of European settlement |
| almanac | reference book with information about the stars and the weather |
| backcountry | name given to the rugged land near the Appalachian mountains |
