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Ch9 Life Colonies

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