| A | B |
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| indigo | a plant used to make a valuable blue dye |
| debtors | people who owed money they could not pay back |
| mercantilism | theory that a nations economic strength came from protecting and increasing its home economy by keeeping strict control over its trade |
| export | trade product sent to markets OUTSIDE a country |
| import | trade product brought INTO a country |
| navigation acts | series or laws passed by the english parliament in the 1650s that regulated trade between england and its colonies |
| yankee | nickname for new england merchants who dominated colonial trade |
| triangular trade | colonial trade route between new england the west indies and africa |
| legislature | group of people who have the power to make laws |
| Glorious Revolution | Parliament removed King James II. William and Mary took over and signed the English Bill of Rights |
| bill of rights | freedoms promised to be protected by the government |
| English Bill of Rights | Need Parlaiments approval to raise taxes, protected right to trial by Jury |
