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| 1494 treaty in which Spain & Portugal agreed to divide the lands of the Western Hemisphere between them & moved the Line of Demarcation further West |
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| an economic system in which nations increase their wealth & power by obtaining gold & silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade |
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| a spaniard who traveled to the Americas as an explorer and a conqueror in the 16th century |
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| a fleet of ships sent in 1588 by Phillip II (spanish king) to invade England and restore Roman Catholicism |
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| a fur-trading post established in 1608 that became the first permanent French settlement in North America |
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| a grant of Native American labor |
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| a large farm that raises cash crops |
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| the practice of holding a person in bondage for labor |
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| the forced removal of Africans from their homelands to serve as slave labors in the Americas |
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| the middle leg of the triangular trade route - the voyage from Africa to the Americas - that brought captured Africans into slavery |
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