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columbian exchange |
the transfer of plants, animals. and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa |
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triangular trade |
trade network in which country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another |
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middle passage |
a voyage that brought enslaved Africans accross Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies |
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mercantilism |
economic system of trading nations used from about the 1500s to 1700s; held that a nations power was directly related to its wealth |
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mayflower compact |
a document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government |
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salutary neglect |
term coined by British statesmen Edmund Burke regarding the English colonies; idea that the colonies benefitted by being left alone, without too much British interference |
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Enlightenment |
movement that began in Europe in the late 1600s as people began examining the natural world, society, and government; also called the Age of Reason |
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John Locke |
Enlightenment thinker |
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