Economic Realities of Colonial America
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| Scots-Irish | The largest group of immigrants to arrive in America (150,000). English officials placed laws against them as a disadvantage.
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| mercantilism | Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
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| middle ground | The Indians own backcountry past the Appalachian Mountains.
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| enumerated goods | Goods of great value that are not produced in England: tobacco, sugar, cotton, indigo, dyewoods, ginger, rice, molasses, rosins, tars, and turpentine.
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| Navigation Acts | Attempted to eliminate the Dutch. 1.) no ship could trade in the colonies without permission from England 2.) enumerate goods of great value could only be sent to England.
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| balance of trade | Board of Trade: group expected to monitor colony affairs and provide government officials with best advice in commercial and other problems.
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| vice-admiralty | Established by the authority of Parliament in British possessions beyond the seas.
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| plantation duties | Drove up consumer prices and complicated the process of planters selling their cash crops to the highest bidders.
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| Pennsylvania Dutch | German migrants who were mistaken as Dutch because of their name, deutsch, which confused the English.
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