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mercantilism |
Theory that countries should acquire gold and focus on exporting goods and owning colonies |
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Parliament |
The lawmaking body of England |
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Navigation Acts |
Laws passed by the British to control colonial trade |
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Dominion of New England |
A huge colony formedby the King of England, which included land form southern Maine to New Jersey |
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Sir Edmund Andros |
Governor appointed by the King of England to govern over the Dominion of England |
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Glorious Revolution |
Overthrow of James ll |
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salutary neglect |
An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies |
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cash crop |
A crop grown for sale rather than for the farmer's use |
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slave |
Person who is considered the property of another |
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triangular trade |
The pattern of shipping trade across the Atlantic |
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middlle passage |
The voyage that brought slaves to America |
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Stono Rebellion |
A 1739 slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina |
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Enlightenment |
Intellectual movement that started in Europe |
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Benjamin Franklin |
Philidelphia inventor, writer, and political leader |
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Jonathan Edwards |
Forceful preacher in the Great Awakening |
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Great Awakening |
Religous revival movement in the colonies |
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New France |
French colony in North America |
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George Washington |
Led Virginia troops in first battle in the French and Indian War |
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Fench and Indian War |
War that gave teh British control of North America |
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William Pitt |
British leader in the French and Indian War |
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Pontiac |
Native American leader who fought the British |
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Proclomation of 1763 |
Law limiting the area of English settlement |
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George Grenville |
Financial expert who was appointed prime minister of Britain in 1763 |
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Sugar Act |
Law passed by Parliament to try to raise money |
