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mercantilism |
theory that held a contry's ultimate goal of self sufficiency and all countries were in a competition to acquire the most gold and silver |
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parliament |
lesgislative body |
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navigation acts |
series of laws restricting colonial trade |
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Dominion of N. England |
land from southern maine to new jersey |
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Sir Edmund andros |
veteran military officer from an aristocratic english family |
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Glrious Revolution |
Parliament passed a series of laws establishing its pwer over the monarch |
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salutary neglect |
beneficial; England relaxed its enforcement of most regulations in return for the coninued economic loyalty of the colonies |
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cash crop |
one grown primarily for sale rather than for farmer's own use |
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slaves |
people who were considered the property of others |
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triangular trade |
2-way trading process where merchants carried rum and other goods from N. Eng. to Afr.; in Afr. they traded their merchandise for enslaved people, whom they transported to the West Indies and sold for sugar and molasses |
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middle passage |
the voyage that brought africans to the W. Indies and later to N. America |
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Stono Rebellion |
Sept Sun. in 1739 when slaves pushed their resistance to open revolt beating drums killing planter families beating drums |
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Enlightenment |
movement ideas about nature gained prevalence in the 1700s |
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Ben Franklin |
Enlightenment figure; belived notion of obtaining truth through experimentation and reasoning |
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Jonathan Edwards |
memeber of the clergy who sought to revive the intensity and commitment of the original Puritan vision |
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Great Awakening |
religious revival via traviling preachers stirring people to rededicate themselves to God |
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George Washington |
22-yr old officer that led a small band that estab. an outpost called Fort Necessity about 40 mi from Fort Duquesne in 1754 |
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French and Indian War |
the fourth war between G. Britain and France for cntrol of N. America |
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William Pitt |
a new energetic self confident politician selected as a new leader to run King George II's gov't. |
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Pontiac |
Ottawa leader |
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Proclamation of 1763 |
banned all settlement west of the Appalachains |
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George Greenville |
financial expert chosen by King George III to serve as P.M. hoping to lower the debt |
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sugar act |
halved the duty on foreign made molasses, placed duties on certain imports, and strenghtened the enforcement of the law allowing prosecutors to try smuggling cases in a vice-admiralty court |
