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4th grade Social Studies

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  • governor
    the leader of a colony or state who helps run the government
  • indentured servant
    someone who agreed to work for another person for a set number of years for travel expenses
  • slave codes
    laws that controlled the lives of enslaved people and took away their rights
  • goods
    things that are made or grown that people buy or use, like food, clothes or toys
  • surplus
    more than what is needed, extra goods or food
  • triangular trade
    a system in which goods and slaves were traded among, America, Africa and England
  • slave trade
    the business of buying and selling enslaved people for profit
  • trade
    the buying, selling, or exchanging of goods and services
  • Merchant
    a person who buys and sells goods
  • government
    an organized system of leaders that run a community or country
  • Manor
    A large of area of land owned by one landowner
  • revolt
    to rise up against conditions that are harsh
  • immigrant
    a person who moves from one country to another to live there
  • John Peter Zenger
    a journalist who questioned the policies of the governor of New York in the 1700's. His court case was the basis for our freedom of speech and pressr
  • services
    work people do to help others, like teaching, fixing things, or delivery mail
  • Export
    to sell or trade products from one place to another place
  • Assembly
    a group of people of people who make decisions about government matters