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11 Cards in this Set
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Middle Passage
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voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies
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Navigation Acts
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a set a English laws that required the American colonies to trade primarily with England; duties on some goods
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Free Enterprise
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an economic system in which there is copmetition between businesses with little goverment control
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Mercatilism
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the belief of maintaining wealth by controlling trade
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Balance of Trade
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having more exports than imports
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Imports
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the act of buying or bringing goods in, goods comming in
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Exports
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the act of selling goods, goods going out
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Duties
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a tax on imports
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Olaudah Equinao
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eleven year old boy sold into slavery, was on the slave ships into the middle passage
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John Barbot
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slave ship captain,, who feels compassiontate for the slaves yet beats them and focibly feeds them
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Reveren Robert Walsh
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wintessed the slaves on a ship and set them free,
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