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100226308Slavany member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language0
100226309MadeiraThe Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama rounded the tip of Africa and colonized the Atlantic Islands, one of which was Madeira. Sugar plantations came to the Atlantic in 1446 from Sicily and many slaves were brought over to work them. Columbus spent a decade in Madeira.1
100226310Barbadoseasternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles north of Venezuela2
100226311Martiniquean island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands3
100226312Malia landlocked republic in northwestern Africa4
100226313Mansa Musathis Mali king brought Mali to its peak of power and wealth from 1312 the 1337; he was the most powerful king in west africa5
100226314Songhaia Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Songhai people in Mali and Niger6
100226315Olaudah EquinoSlave from Nigeria who was sent to America. He bought his freedom after ten years and was dedicated to promoting antislavery.7
100226316John Hawkinsan English merchant who defined Spanish trade and brought european goos and african slaves to the spanish settlements in the americas; sold goods at a good profiit8
100226317Royal African CompanyA trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa.9
100226318AngolEnglish10
100226319Gold CoastRegion of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward.11
100226320Panyaringkidnapping slaves12
100226321Middle Passagethe route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade13
100226322tidewaterthe coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia14
100226323tobacco coloniesChesapeake region, extending from Delaware south through Maryland and Virginia into the Albemarle Sound region of North Carolina15
100226324Elizabeth Lucas PinckneySouth Carolina planter who made indigo a major cash crop for the southern colonies.16
100226325James OglethorpeGeorgia formally founded in 1733. The ablest of the founders was the dynamic soldier-statesman James Oglethorpe, who became keenly interested in prison reform after one of his friends did in a debtors' jail. Repelled Spanish attacks.17
100226326Robert Sieur de La Saffe...18
100226327John Woolmana Quaker who wrote the first antislavery pamphlet19
100226328acculturationthe process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure20
100226329Stono Rebelliona 1739 uprising of slaves in South Carolina, leading to the tightening of already harsh slave laws21
100226330Adams Smithwrote WEALTH OF NATIONS which leads to capitalism and laissez faire and division of labor22
100226331Mercantilisman economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests23
100226332King William's War(1689-1697) Small war between French and English that had small battles fought in Northern New England.24
100226333Queen Anne's War(1702-13 )war england fights france and spain in the carribean and new france aka the war of spanish succession25
100226334Peace of UtrechtEnded Queen Anne's War. Undermined France's power in North America by giving Britain the Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia.26
100226335War of Jenkin's EarIt began because of Spanish atrocities to British merchants in the West Indies, Between Britain and Spain- Carribean Sea and Georgia- ended with Louisbourg back to France27
100226336King George's War1744 and 1748. England and Spain were in conflict with French. New England captured French Bastion at Louisburg on Cape Brenton Island. Had to abandon it once peace treaty ended conflict.28
100226337Casa de Contratacionformed to carry out the Spanish commercial interests, it became the most influential institution of the Spanish Empire29
100226338Navigation ActsLaws passed by the British to control colonial trade30
100226339Wool Act of 1699Prohibited the export (but not the manufacture for local sale) of colonial woolen cloth. Directed at Irish workers.31
100226340Hat Act of 1732forbade the exporting of hats to England, to foreign countries, or from one colony to another(date in answer)32
100226341Iron Act of 1750prohibited metal processing in colonies33
100226342commodity moneymoney that takes the form of a commodity with intrinsic value34
100226343Walpoleregarded as the first British Prime Minister, his source of power was the King rather than the Parliament35
100226344Salutory neglectBritish policy of not strictly enforcing laws meant to keep Colonies obedient to Britian36
100226345Molasses Act of 1733Taxation on molasses that was too high to pay and it encouraged smuggling.37
100226346triangular tradeA three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Aferica sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa38

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