To bring goods from another country for sale or use.
What is import?
100
To send goods to other countries for sale or trade.
What is export?
100
An indentured servant who became a school mistress in Philadelphia, and wrote an autobiography.
Who is Jane Hoskens?
100
Planting and harvesting tobacco, rice, and indigo, caring for animals, cooking, cleaning, and repairing tools.
What are some daytime jobs of slaves on plantations?
100
Rules that stripped away the rights of captive people.
What was the slave code?
200
A person hired to be the boss of a plantation.
What is an overseer?
200
A large farm that often grows one crop.
What is a plantation?
200
A West African who wrote of being kidnapped, enslaved, and transported to North America at age 11.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
200
Southern planters strengthened the slave codes in response to this uprising of enslaved people led by a captive named Cato, in which 30 colonists of South Carolina were killed.
What is the Stono Rebellion of 1739?
200
An economic system in which people could start any business they want. They decide what to make, how much to produce, and what price to charge.
What is free enterprise?
300
The story of a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
300
The business of farming.
What is agriculture?
300
A Quaker who spoke out against slavery in the colonies, and asked slave-owning Quakers to release their captives.
Who is John Woolman?
300
Lightning rod, bifocal eyeglasses, and a wood-burning stove.
What are 3 of Benjamin Franklin's inventions?
300
This rugged land near the Appalachian Mountains was a destination for poor people in colonial times looking to "get rich quick". They put up with difficult conditions in exchange for plentiful land and few restrictions.
What is the backcountry?
400
A word used by colonists to describe land on the edge of European settlement.
What is frontier?
400
All the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service.
What is industry?
400
He said that slavery was against "the true principles of religion and justice, and began freeing the 500 enslaved people on his plantation.
Who is Robert Carter III?
400
Doing personal chores, feeding their animals, cutting firewood, tending to their own gardens, making supper, talking, telling stories, and singing songs with family.
What are some nighttime jobs of slaves on plantations?
400
The 3-way passage between Africa, the West Indies, and the New England colonies. The colonists exported rum, iron goods, and guns to Africa. Enslaved Africans were imported to the West Indies, and molasses was transported from the West Indies back to New England to be made into rum.
What is the triangular trade?
500
The business of buying and selling people for profit.
What is the slave trade?
500
A reference book that contains information about the stars and the weather.
What is an almanac?
500
A South Carolina planter who made indigo a major cash crop for the Southern Colonies.
Who was Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney?
500
in 1760, the English government passed laws forbidding people to leave the country in response to this.
What was "colony fever"?
500
The 3 things that made the hardships of the trip to the colonies worthwhile.
What is cheap land, opportunity to earn a living, and religious freedom?