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Unit 6 Vocab cl
Question | Answer |
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Mercantilism | An economic system in which countries gain wealth through trade. (pg. 27) |
Navigation Acts | British laws that restricted colonial trade. |
Privy Council | A group of royal advisers that set English colonial policies. |
English Bill of Rights | A shift of political power from the British monarchy to Parliament. |
Dominion of New England | Issued by King James II, in 1686 he united the northern colonies under one government. The head of the group was headed by Sir Edmund Andros. |
Triangular Trade | Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, and Africa. |
Middle Passage | A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies. |
Great Awakening | A religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730's and 1740's. |
Enlightenment | The Age of Reason; movement that began in Europe in the 1700s as people began examining the natural world, society and government. |
Treaty of Paris 1763 | The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War between the French and the British, England had all of the land east of the Mississippi river except New Orleans. |
Proclomation of 1763 | Law that banned British settlement west of the Appalation Mountains. Law also ordered settlers to leave upper Ohio River Valley. |