| A | B |
|---|
| subsistence farming | when farmers produce only enough to feed their families |
| export | a product that is sent to another country |
| import | a product that is brought into a country and sold |
| artisan | a person trained in a skill or labor |
| triangular trade routes | regular trade route that formed a triangle |
| cash crop | food crops grown to be sold |
| conestoga wagon | horse drawn covered wagon used to carry crops |
| patroon | landowner who received rent, taxes and labor from tenant farmers |
| apprentice | someone learning a craft from the master craftsman |
| frontier | an area that is settled outside of a colony |
| urban | the city |
| rural | countryside |
| tidewater | the area around the rivers |
| Middle Passage | route between Africa and America |
| slave codes | laws that denied enslaved Africans most of their rights |
| Bill of Rights | a document listing freedoms guaranteed to all citizens |
| libel | publishing harmful statements |
| mercantilism | when a country had to sell more goods than it bought to gain wealth |
| navigation acts | laws passed by England to control colonial trade |
| legislature | a lawmaking body |
