Standard 1 (a and b): Mercantilism & British Colonization

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How had the location of major overseas trade shifted in Europe by the seventeenth century?

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Trade shifted from being centered in the Mediterranean to being centered in the Atlantic.

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According to the theory of mercantilism, what must a nation do in order to build economic strength?

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export more than it imports

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Though they helped the English in Jamestown at first, the Powhatan Confederacy became more and more hostile toward them until Chief Powhatan allowed the marriage of his daughter Pocahontas to whom after she was kidnapped by the English?

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John Rolfe

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Bacon’s Rebellion resulted from Nathaniel Bacon’s sympathy with the problems faced by English settlers on the frontier.

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English settlers on the frontier

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The first successful British colony in North America was

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Jamestown, Virginia

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The Virginia Company introduced what system in 1618 under which anyone who paid for their own passage to Virginia received 50 acres of land?

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Headright system

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The legislative assembly established in the 1640's in Virginia, now known as the General Assembly of Virginia, was the

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House of Burgesses

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Trading system that involved a three-step voyage between Europe, Africa, and North America

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Trans-Atlantic Trade

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How did colonies help European nations (mother countries) that believed in mercantilism?

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Colonies provided markets for European nations where colonists were forced to buy manufactured goods.