1. The betrayal of one’s country by giving help to an enemy. Treason

2. Virginia planter and slave- owner who freed the 500 people enslaved on his plantation. Robert Carter III

3. To send goods to other countries for sale or use. Export

4. Virginia planter, patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Richard Henry Lee

5. A town officer. Constable

6. South Carolina planter who made indigo a major cash crop for the Southern Colonies. Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney

7. A person who works for a skilled person to learn a trade or art. Apprentice

8. Enslaved African American poet whose poems called for fair treatment for all people. Phillis Wheatley

9. A word used by settlers to describe land beyond their settlements. Frontier

10. All the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service. Industry

11. The business of farming. Agriculture

12. African who wrote of being kidnapped, enslaved and transported to North America. Olaudah Equiano

13. In colonial times, the name of the Eastern foothills of the Appalachians. Backcountry

14. An economic system in which people can own property and businesses and are free to decide what to make, how much to produce and what price to charge. Free Enterprise

15. The middle leg of the triangular trade route in colonial times in which captive Africans were shipped to the West Indies to be sold into slavery. Middle Passage

16. The making or passing of laws. Legislation

17. An enslaved African in the English colonies in 1640. John Punch

18. The business of buying or selling people for profit. Slave trade

19. English philosopher whose thinking influenced Thomas Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of Independence. John Locke

20. Rules made by the colonial planters that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans. Slave codes

21. Writer, scientist, delegate to the Continental Congress, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Franklin

22. A member of an elected assembly. Delegate

23. The story of a person’s own life written by himself or herself. Autobiography

24. Quaker who spoke out against slavery in the colonies. John Woolman

25. The three-sided trade route between Africa, the West Indies and colonial New England. Triangular trade

26. A large farm that often grows one crop. Plantation

27. A lawmaking body. Assembly

28. Newspaper printer whose trial in 1734 helped to establish the idea of freedom of the press. John Peter Zenger

29. A group of volunteers who fought in times of emergency during the colonial period and the American Revolution. Militia

30. The boss of a plantation. Overseer