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history unit 6
unit 6
Question | Answer |
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Triangular Trade | trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, and Africa |
Mercantilsm | an economic system in which countries gain wealth through trade |
Navigation Acts | British laws that restricted colonial trade |
Treaty of Paris 1763 | the treaty that France signed to end the French and Indian war |
Privy Council | a group of royal advisors who set English policies |
English Bill of Rights | a shift of political power from the British monarchy to Parliament which was an elected body |
Dominion of New England | the government for the northern colonies which was united in 1686 by king James the 2nd |
Enlightment | the Age of Reason; movement that began in Eroupe in the 1700's as people began examining the natural world, society, and government |
Middle Passage | a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies |
Proclomation if 1763 | Banned British settlement of the Applachian Mountains (a law passed by King George the third) |
Great Awakening | a religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730's and 1740's |