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Ch9 Life Colonies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| autobiography | the story of a person's life |
| slave trade | the business of buying and selling people for profit |
| Olaudah Equiano | wrote an autobiography of his life as a slave |
| Jane Hoskens | a slave in Philadelphia who was treated well. She wrote an autobiography |
| export | to send goods to other countries to sell or trade |
| import | to bring goods from another country for sale or trade |
| agriculture | farming and raising crops to sell or trade |
| free enterprise | people can decide what to make, how much to charge and how much to produce |
| industry | all the businesses that make one kind of product or one service Ex. whaling |
| triangular trade | the trade route between Africa, West Indies, North America and Europe |
| Middle Passage | the route between Africa and the West Indies and N. America where slaves were transported |
| plantation | large farms that grew one crop for profit |
| slave codes | rules that took away rights from slaves |
| overseer | the boss on the plantation |
| John Woolman | a Quaker who wrote about slaves and equal rights |
| Robert Carter III | he said that slavery was against the true principles of religion and justice |
| frontier | unsettled land in the interior of N. America |
| alamanac | reference book that gives info on stars and climate |
| Philadelphia | largest city in the 13 colonies, Ben Franklin lived there |
| backcountry | unsettled land west of the Appachians |
| Shenandoah Valley | trail first used by Native Americans and later early settlers |
| Benjamin Franklin | one of the founding fathers he was an author an inventor and a sciencetest who discovered lightning was electricity |