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History
7th Grade
01/08/2008

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Term
mercantilism
Definition

when a country uses another country just to get rich

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navigation and trade acts
Definition
series of laws that controlled trade between england and its countries
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salutary neglect
Definition
was a law that was not written that was trying to make the colonies obey england
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the french and indian war

 

Definition

 a war between the french and the english in which we the colonies helped out the english to defeat the french! and the french had help from the indians

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reasons for the french and indian war
Definition

1.) the english were trying to take over the ohio river valley from the French

2.) the french aan the english were big rivals

- always the top two countries in the world!

 

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results of the war
Definition

-for the english the war was a success and they got the ohio river valley

- for the french the war was a disapointment because they lost all of their land to the british and all they had left was haide
- for the colonists the war was that now the english would be able to have a closer watch on the colonists

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problems faced by parliament after the french and indian war
Definition
the indians were one of england's problems after the war - when the colonists would cross the appalachain mountains the indiands would kill them/ then england had to pay an army to go protect the colonists,  but they didn't have enough money
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