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to take control of an area and send people to live there
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the movement of plants, animals, and diseases across the Atlantic due to European exploration of the Americas (named after Christopher Columbus)
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Spain's reputation as bloodthirsty conquistadors
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sea captains to whom the British government had given permission to raid Spanish ships at will
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a disease that Europeans accidentally brought to the New World, killing millions of Native Americans, who had no immunity to the disease
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an island in the Caribbean, present-day Haiti and Dominican Republic, where Columbus landed on his first voyage to the Americas and established a Spanish colony
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the protectionist economic principle that nations should control trade with their colonies to ensure a favorable balance of trade
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a plant that is grown to be sold for profit
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one of the primary crops of the Americas, which required a tremendous amount of labor to cultivate
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a labor contract that promised young men, and sometimes women, money and land after they worked for a set period of years
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the perilous, often deadly transatlantic crossing of ships carrying captured Africans from the African coast to the New World
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the first Spanish (and first European) settlement in North America, now a city located in northeastern Florida
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shell beads used by native peoples in ceremonies and as jewelry and currency
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belief in the existence of God or a creator, but one who does not intervene in the universe
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alliances of Native American tribes
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the last eighteenth-century (1700s) war between the empires of Great Britain and France, lasting from 1754 to 1763, and leading to a decisive British victory and control over North America
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Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island
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New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
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Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
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the group of people in government who make laws
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the Algonquin, Mohawk, Ottawa, and Shawnee tribes
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the Iroquois Confederacy, Cherokee, and Catawba tribes
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imperial country in Western Europe and loser of the French and Indian War
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empire based in Western Europe and winner of the French and Indian War, made up of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Wales
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an order from Britain's king after the French and Indian War forbidding colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountain range
