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| An economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies |
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| A crop such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton raised in large quantities and sole for profit. |
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| A formal document issued by the king that outlined a colony's geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed. |
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| A government ruled by the people, in a democracy, the power to govern belongs to the people. |
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| An agreement that pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas. |
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| The business of capturing and transporting slaves. |
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