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Triangular trade |
The transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America |
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Stono Rebellion |
A 1739 uprising in South Carolina |
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Middle Passage |
The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and later to North and South America to be sold as slaves. |
Sickening cruelty characterized this journey |
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Atlantic Slave Trade |
The buying, transporting, and selling of Africans to work in the Americas. By the time this ended in 1870, Europeans had imported 9.5 million Africans to the Americas. |
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Olaudah Equiano |
African who recalled the inhumane conditions on his trip from West Africa to the West Indies at age 12 in 1762 |
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Social mobility |
The ability to change one's social class |
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Capitalism |
Is an economic system based on private ownership and the investment of resources, such as money, for profit. |
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Joint-stock company |
A business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose then share the profits |
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Favorable balance of trade |
An economic situation in which a country sells more goods than it buys from abroad |
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Mercantilism |
An economic theory practiced in Europe from the 16th to the 18th centuries based on the idea that a country's power came from its wealth |
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Colombian Exchange |
The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas |
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Inflation |
The steady rise in the price of goods |
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Colonization |
Resulted in the exchange of new items that greatly influenced the lives of people throughout the world |
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