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Colonies in North America prospered when they began to produce cash crops for export, such as tobacco, rice, and cotton.

WORDS TO UNDERSTAND New World— a term used by European settlers to refer to the lands in North America, the Caribbean, and South America that they invaded and colonized during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. indentured servant— a person who was under contract with a master to work without pay in exchange for food, housing, water, and safe passage across seas. After a predetermined period of time, the indentured servant’s debt was paid and he or she was set free. servitude— to be enslaved or subject to the will of someone more powerful.

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