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| Seven Years' War | War fought in Europe, North America, and India between 1756 and 1763, pitting France and its allies against Great Britain and its allies. |
| Middle Passage | The voyage between West Africa and the New World slave colonies. It was characterized by extremely harsh conditions. |
| Slave Codes | A series of laws passed mainly in the southern colonies in the late-17th and early 18th centuries to defend the status of slaves and codify the denial of basic civil rights to them. |
| Great Awakening | Tremendous religious revivial in colonial America striking first in the Middle Colonies and New England in the 1740s and then spreading to the Southern colonies. |
| Mercantilism | Economic system whereby the government intervenes in the economy for the purpose of increasing national wealth. |
| Queen Anne's War | American phase (1702-1713) of Europe's War of the Spanish Succession. |
| King George's War | The third Anglo-French war in North America (1744-1748), part of the European conflict known as the War of the Austrian Succession. |
| Enumerated Goods | Items produced in the colonies and enumerated in acts of parliament that could be legally shipped from the colony of origin only to specified locations. |
