people who live in a colony, including original settlers and their descendants.
Privateer
a shipcaptain given permission by the king or queen to attack and steal from enemyships.
Triangular trade
the traderoute where goods went from Europe to Africafor slaves, who were sold in America, and then goods like sugar and cotton were sent back to Europe.
Plantation
a largefarm where crops like coffee,sugar and tobacco are grown.
Trade
the buying and selling of goods and services.
Slavery
a system where people are treated as property and forced to work without freedom.
New world
North and South America, which Europeans didn’t know about until 1492.
White Gold
a nickname for sugar, because it made a lot of money.
Indentured labour
a system where people worked for a set number of years to pay off the cost of their trip to a newcountry.
