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Unit 3 Vocab
Socail Studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| covenant | a contrast, an agreement |
| tolerate | to allow people to have different beliefs from your own |
| proprietor | a person who owns property or a business |
| plantation | a large farm |
| debtor | a person who owes money |
| slave trade | the business of buying and selling people |
| apprentice | a person learning a craft or trade from a master |
| Great Awakening | a religious movement of the 1700s |
| backcountry | colonial area between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Coastal |
| slave codes | rules made by colonial planters over the Atlantic ocean |
| triangular trade | 3 sided trade routes over the Atlantic ocean |
| middle passage | the middle leg of the colonial trade route in which captive Africans were shipped to the West Indies |
| assembly | a law making body |
| legislature | a body of people that has the power to make or pass laws |