Colonial Times
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- Slave codes
- rules to keep the enslaved workers under control.
- Free enterprise
- people can start any business they want in which they decide what to make, how much to produce, and what price to charge
- treason
- the betrayal of ones country by giving help to the enemy
- Industry
- all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service
- Triangular trade
- trade between the new England colonies, Africa, and the West Indies for rum, guns, captive Africans, and molasses
- Plantations
- large farms in the Southern colonies
- constable
- a town officer in charge of keeping order
- assembly
- a lawmaking body
- Agriculture
- the business of farming
- freedom of the press
- the colonists could speak or print the truth without fear of being put in jail
- town meeting
- the earliest form of local government in New England where male colonists got together to solve problems
- delegates
- members of the assembly
- John Locke
- believed the government was responsible for protecting people's natural rights
- Export
- to send good to other countries for sale or trade
- Overseer
- the boss of the plantation
- legislation
- the making and passing of laws
- militia
- a military force made up of volunteers