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| a country should try and get as much bullion - gold and silver, as possible; the more one country had, the wealthier and powerful the country would be |
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| the difference in the value of imports and exports |
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| Great Britian raely enforced its trade regulations in the early 1700s because neglect served its interests better than strict enforcement of the law - colonies prospered without much government interference |
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| crops that are in constant demand - examples in this time period are tobacco and rice - leads to the demand for slave labor |
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| trade between the Americas, Europe and Africa |
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| men or women wealthy enough to hire people to work for them - set apart by their dress - wigs, stockings, hats and lace cuffs |
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| persons placed under a legal contract to work for another person in exchange for learning a trade |
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| a book containing information such as calendars, wise sayings, weather predictions and advice - an example is Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Alamanac |
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| a type of plant used in making a blue dye for cloth |
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| able to make everything needed to maintain itself |
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| one leg of the triangular trade between the Americas, Europe, and Africa - also used to refer to the forced transport of slaves from Africa to the Americas |
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| people who enter a new country to settle |
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| a movement of people in search of land on which they could build independent lives and maintain their households |
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| in the 1730s-40s, a Puritan movement of religious revival and commitment to their faith |
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| traveling peachers such as George Whitfield |
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