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| mercantilism | an economic system in which nations seek to increase wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and establishing a favorable balance of trade |
| Navigation Acts | a series of laws enacted by Parliment, beginning in1651, to tighten England's control of trade in its American colony |
| Dominion Of New England | land from southern Maine to New Jersey that was united into one vast colony by King James 11 |
| salutary neglect | an English policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations in its colonies in return for the colonies' continued economic loyality |
| triangular trade | the transatlantic system of trade in which goods and people, including slaves, were exchanged between Africa, England, Eurorpe, the West Indies and the colonies in North America |
| middle passage | the voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the West INdies and later to North America |
| Stono Rebellion | uprising of slaves in South Carolina leading to the tightening of already harsh slave laws |
| Great Awakening | a revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during 1730's and 1750's |
| Pontiac | Ottawa chief who lead Native Americans to capture eight British forts in the Ohio Valley and laid seige to two others |
| Proclamation of 1763 | an order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Sugar Act | a trade law enacted by PArliment in 1764 in an attempt to reduce smuggling in the British colonies in North America |
| Albany Plan of Union | Ben Franklin's plan which called for a joint colonial council to address defence issues |
