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30 Cards in this Set
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The Business of buying and selling people for profit |
Slave trade |
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The story of a person's own life written b himself or herself |
autobiography |
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African who wrote of being kidnapped, enslaved and transported to North America |
Olaudah Equiano |
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A Word used by settlers to describe land beyond their settlements |
Frontier |
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A person who works for a skilled person to learn a trade or art. |
Apprentice |
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In colonial times, the name of the eastern foothills of the Appalachians. |
Backcountry |
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Writer, scientist, delegate to the Continental Congress, and signer of the Declaration of Independence |
Ben Franklin |
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A large farm that often grows on crop. |
Plantation |
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Rules made by colonial planters that controlled the lives of enslave Africans |
Slave Codes |
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The boss of a plantation |
Overseer |
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An enslaved African in the English colonies |
John Punch |
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Quarter who spoke out against slavery int he colonies |
John Woolman |
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Virginia planter and slave-owner who freed the 500 people enlsaved on his plantation, beginning in 1791 |
Robert Cater III |
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To send goods to other countries for sale or use |
Export |
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The business of farming |
Agriculture |
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All the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service |
Industry |
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An economic system in which people can own property and businesses and are free to decide what to make, how much to produce, and what price to charge |
Free Enterprise |
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The three-sided trade route between Africa, the West Indies, and colonial New England |
Triangular Trade |
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The middle leg of the triangular trade route in colonial times in which captive Africans were shopped to the West Indies to be sold into slavery |
Middle Passage |
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South Carolina planter who made indigo a major cash crop for the Southern Colonies |
Eliza Lucas Pinckney |
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A lawmaking body |
Assembly |
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The law making or passing of laws. |
Legislation |
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a Group of volunteers who fought in times of emergency during the colonial period and the American Revolution |
Militia |
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A member of an elected assembly |
Delegate |
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A town officer |
Constable |
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The betrayal of one's country by giving help to an enemy |
Treason |
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Virginia planter, patriot, and signer of the Declaration of Independence |
Richard Henry Lee |
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English philosopher whose thinking influenced Thomas Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of Independence |
John Locke |
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Newspaper printer whose trial in 1734 helped to establish the idea of freedom of the press |
John Peter Zenger |
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Enslaved African American poet whose poems called for fair treatment for all people |
Phillis Wheatley |
