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American Coloniess
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a plantation? | forest, farm or estate, where crops are grown for sale |
| What is salutary neglect? | policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to England. |
| What is the Middle Passage? | the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa[1] were shipped to the New World, as part of the Atlantic slave trade. |
| What was the economy of New England? | had very small farms, but depended mostly on ship building and foresting |
| What was the economy of the middles colonies? | depended on some farms, but also commerce |
| What was the economy of southern colonies? | depended on agriculture and had large plantations |
| What was the first succesful colony in America? | Jamestown in Virginia |
| What are reasons people came to America? | Riches and religion |
| What is mercantilism? | when nations export more goods than they import to get rich |
| What is nationlism? | when colonists become more loyal to the colonies than to their mother country |
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