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| mercantilism | economic system in which empires competed for wealth and power through trade. |
| colonies | set up by European empires to provide gold, silver, and trading goods. |
| Navigation Acts | Trading rules established by England for the 13 colonies that restricted trading only with England. |
| Self-determination | Idea of colonists that they could govern themselves. Forshadowed the American Revolution. |
| plantation economy | found mostly in Southern colonies, these large farms dominated the economy of the area. |
| Middle Passage | The middle leg of transatlantic triangular trade. 13% of all African slaves died during this portion. |
| Triangular Trade | Term that refers to the trading process in which goods & enslaved people were exchanged across the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Enlightenment | Intellectual movement that valued reason and scientific methods and encouaged people to question traditional authority. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Colonist who valued the teachings of the Enlightenment as the means to understand his environment. |
| Great Awakening | A series of religious changes that swept across the early colonies causing people to question traditional authority . |
| Jonathan Edwards | Famous Great Awakening preacher |
| French and Indian War | Where Great Britain fights a war with France who enlists the help of Native Americans to fight the British. The British won. |
| William Pitt | General during the French and Indian War |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | Officially ended the French and Indian War |
| Pontiac | Native American who continued to attack colonist and British troops even after the end of the French and Indian War. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | In an effort to stop spending money on protecting colonists from hostile Native American attacks, this law forbid colonist from crossing the Appalachian Mountains to settle. Many went anyway. |
