Colonial Vocab 25

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Export

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Goods leaving a country

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Import

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Goods entering a country

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mercantilism

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Selling more than you buy from other countries

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The trade route between England, New England, Africa, and West Indies

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Triangular Trade

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A person who cannot pay the money he/she owes.

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debtor

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Slave Codes

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laws that controlled the lives of enslaved people and denied them of their basic rights

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A religious movement in the English colonies in the mid 1700s

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Great Awakening

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Navigation Acts

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Laws England imposed on to regulate trade with the colonies

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quarters

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living accommodations

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a group of people, usually elected, who have the power to make laws

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legislature