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mercantilism
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an economic theory that calls for a country to export more than it imports
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export
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goods that are sent to markets outside a country
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import
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goods that are brought into a country
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Navigation Acts
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series of English laws in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies
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Yankee
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nickname for New England merchants who dominate colonial trade
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triangular trade
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goods are shipped to West Africa that would buy slaves. Those slaves were taken to America. They would work to grow sugar and the crops would be shipped back to Europe.
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legislature
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group of people who make laws
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Glorious Revolution
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a 1688 movement that brougn William and Mary to the throne of England and strengthened the rights of English citizens
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bill or rights
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written list of freedoms the government promises to protect
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English Bill of Rights
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a 1689 document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens
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