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| a crop grown primarily for profit |
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| a large, commercial, agricultural estate |
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| an individual who contracts to work for a colonist for a specified number of years in exchange for transportation to the colonies, food, clothing, and shelter |
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| wealthy landowners in the South, also called the planter elite |
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| farming only enough food to feed someone's family |
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| the difficult journey slaves endured in crossing the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas |
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| a set of laws that formally regulated slavery and denied the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people |
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| a gathering of free men in a New England town to elect leaders which developed into the local town government |
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| men chosen to manage a town's affairs |
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| credit slip given by English merchants to planters in exchange for sugar or other goods |
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| a three-way trade route that exchanged goods between the American colonies and two other trading partners |
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| a skilled worker who practices a trade or handicraft |
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| one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a buisness or enterprise |
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| person who invests wealth, particularly money, into a buisness |
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| the theory that a state's power depends on its wealth |
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| fundamental rights that all people are born posessing, including the right of life, liberty, and property |
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| movement during the 1700s that promoted science, knowledge, and reason |
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| movement during the 1700s that stressed dependence on God |
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| philosophy that emphasizes the role of logic and reason in gathering knowledge |
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| movement in the 1700s that stressed an individual's piety and an emotional union with God |
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| large public meeting for preaching and prayer |
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