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mercantalism |
an economic system in which nations seek to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade
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Parliament
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the legislative body of England
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Navigation Acts
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a series of laws enacted by Parliament, beginning in 1651, to tighten England's control of trade in its American colonies
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Glorious Revolution
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the transfer of the British monarchy from James II to William and Mary in 1688-1689
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salutary neglect
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an English policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations in its colonies in return for the colonies' continued economic loyalty
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cash crop
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a crop grown by a farmer for sale rather than for personal use
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slave
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a person who becomes the property of others
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triangular trade
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the transatlantic system of trade in which good and people, including slaves, were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America
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middle passage
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the voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and later to North America
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Stono Rebellion
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a 1739 uprising of slaves in South Carolina, leading to the tightening of already harsh slave laws
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Enlightenment
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an 18th-century intellectual movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method as means of obtaining knowledge
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Great Awakening
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a revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1750s
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French and Indian War
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a conflict in North America, lasting from 1754 to 1763, that was a part of a worldwide struggle between France and Britian and that ended with the defeat of France and the transfer of French Canada to Britian
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Proclamation of 1763
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an order in which Britian prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
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Sugar Act
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a trade law enacted by Parliament in 1764 in an attempt to reduce smuggling in the British colonies in North America
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