| A | B |
|---|
| slave trade | business of buying and selling people for profit |
| export | send goods to other countries for sale or use |
| industry | all businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service |
| triangular trade | three sided trade route between Africa, West Indies, & colonial New England which involved the slave trade as well as the trading of goods |
| Middle Passage | middle leg of the triangular trade route in colonial times in which captive Africans ere shipped to the West Indies to be sold into slavery |
| plantation | large farm that often grows one crop |
| slave codes | rules made by colonial planters that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans |
| overseer | person hired to be the boss of a plantation |
| frontier | word used by colonists and pioneers to describe land on the edge of their settlements |
| apprentice | person who works for skilled person to learn trade or art |
| legislation | making or passing of laws |
