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Privy Council
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A body of some thirty to forty advisers appointed by and responsible solely to the king. The Privy Council became the first agency of colonial supervision.
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Mercantilism
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Limitation and exploitation of colonial trade by an imperial power.
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Enumerated goods
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Certain specified goods from the Colonies, including tobacco, cotton, sugar, and furs, which were to be shipped only to England or other English colonies.
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Dominion of New England
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Consolidation into a single colony of the New England colonies and later New York and New Jersey-by royal governor Edmund Andros in 1686; dominion reverted to individual colonial governments three years later.
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Sir Edmund Andros
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Royal governor of the Dominion of New England.
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Jacob Leisler
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A German immigrant who became governor of New York from 1688 to 1691 before being hanged for treason. He was later exonerated of all charges.
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Contact theory of government
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Idea that people were endowed with certain natural rights to life, liberty, and property, set forth by John Locke in his Second Treatise.
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Writs of assistance
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One of the colonies’ main complaints against Britain, the writs allowed unlimited search warrants without cause to look for evidence of smuggling.
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Admiralty Courts
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Courts wherein the cases were decided by judges appointed by the governors, rather that by a colonial jury.
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Board of Trade
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British overseer of all matters pertaining to colonial trade and laws.
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Salutary neglect
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So-called system by which the Board of Trade became chiefly an agency of political patronage and lax in its enforcement of trade relations.
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Prorogue
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To adjourn or recess.
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Mestizo
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People of mixed Indian and European ancestry.
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Samuel de Champlain
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French explorer and governor of New France until his death in 1635.
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Acadians
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Acadians
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