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Vocab.
Vocab. Ch 20 Sec. 1 - 4
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History
9th Grade
12/17/2012

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Christopher Columbus
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Colony
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Hernando Cortes
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Conquistador
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Francisco Pizarro
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Atahualpa
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Mestizo
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Encomienda
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New France
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James Town
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Pilgrims
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Puritans
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A Group of people who sought freedom from religious persecution in England by founding a colony at Massachusetts Bay in the Early 1600s.
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New Netherland
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French & Indian War
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A conflict between Britain and France for Control of territory in North America, lasting from 1754 to 1763.
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Metacom
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Atlantic Slave Trade
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the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americans.
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Triangular Trade
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The transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in the Americans .
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Middle Passage
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The Voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies, and later to North & South America, to be sold as slaves -- so called b/c it was considered the middle leg of the triangular trade.
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Columbian Exchange
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The Global Transfer of plants , animals , and diseases that occurred during the European Colonization of the Americans.
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Capitalism
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An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit.
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Joint-stock Company
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A Business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the profits.
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Mercantilism
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An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought .
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Favorable balance of Trade
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An economic situation in which a country sells more goods aboard than it buys from aboard
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