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24 Cards in this Set
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Mercantilism
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Economic systemin which nations seek to increase their wealth snd power by obtaining large anounts of gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balence of tradeparlpa
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Parliment
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Legislative body of Englandyeo
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Yeomen
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Small farmers
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Navigation Acts
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Series of laws restricting colonial trade
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Dominion of New England
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Southern Maine to New Jersey untied into one vast colony
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Glorious Revolution
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Transfer of the British monarchy from James II to William and Mary in 1688-1689
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Cash crop
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A crop grown by a farmer for sale rather than personal use
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French and Indian War
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Conflict in NA, lasting from 1754-1763 that was part of a world wide struggle b/t France and Britain and that ended with the defeat of France and the transfer of French Canada to Britain
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Balance of Trade
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The difference in value b/t a country's imports and exports
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Stono Rebellion
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Uprising of slaves in South Carolina, leading to the tightening of already harsh slave laws
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Proclamation of 1763
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An order in which Britain prohibiteted it American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
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Salutary Neglect
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English policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations in its colonies in return for the colonies' continued economic loyalty
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Staple Crop
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Crop a person can live off of and eat
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Planter
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Person who owned a plantation and do not work with slaves
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Triangular Trade
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Transatlantic system of trade in which goods and people, including slaves, were exchanged b/t Africa, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America
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Sugar Act
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Trade law enacted by Parliment in 1764 in an attempt to reduce smuggling in the British colonies in North America
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Great Awakening
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A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730's and 1750's
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Middle Passage
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The voyage the brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and later to North America
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Enlightenment
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18th-century intellectual movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method as means of obtaining knowledge
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Benjamin Franklin
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Enlightenment figure
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Jonathan Edwards
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George Washington
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22 year old lieutenat colonel; first defeat was Fort Necessity
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William Pitt
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Treaty of Paris 1763
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