Cash Crop
A crop sold for money
Charter
A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company.
Colony
A group of people who move to a new land and are ruled by the government of their native land.
Export
A trade product that is sent to markets OUTSIDE a country.
Import
A trade product that is brought INTO a country.
Indentured Servant
A person who agrees to work without wages for 5 to 7 years in exchange for passage to the colonies.
Middle Passage
The name given to the ocean trip from Africa to the Americans in which a large and unknown number of enslaved Africans died.
Plantation
A large estate farmed by many workers usually to grow cash crops.
Representative Government
A government in which voters elect representatives to make decisions and laws for them.
Slave Code
Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights.
Slavery
When a person or group of people are forced into bondage to serve a master or household without wages or pay.
Triangle Trade
Colonial trade route between the New World, Europe, and Africa that's included trading goods for slaves.