Vocabulary List

________ that guaranteed rights to the English nobles.

• Magna Carta

• Natural Rights

• a proclamation

_________ a group of people who have the power to make laws

• executive

• legislature

• judicial

_________ list of freedom that a government promises to protect

• bill of rights

• natural rights

_______economic theory that a national strength came from building up its gold supplies and expanding its trade

• triangular trade

• Mercantilism

______________ a series of economic laws passed by England to regulate and control trade with their colonies

• Maga Carta

• Navigation Acts

_________trade product brought into the country

• export

• import

_____ a trade product sent to markets outside the country

• import

• export

_______ocean trip from Africa to the Americas in which thousands of enslaved Africans died

• Middle Passage

• Slave Codes

_________ colonial trade route between England, the West Indies and Africa

• triangular trade

• enlightenment

__________a belief that one race is superior to another.

• racism

• slave codes