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 |