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Question 1

Bill of Rights

Answer 1

the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution

Question 2

English Bill of Rights

Answer 2

a 1689 document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens

Question 3

Export

Answer 3

a trade product sent to markets outside a country

Question 4

Glorious Revolution

Answer 4

in 1688, the movement that brought William and Mary to the throne of England and strengthened the rights of English citizens

Question 5

imports

Answer 5

trade products brought into a country

Question 6

legislator

Answer 6

a group of people, usually elected, who have the power to make laws

Question 7

mercantilism

Answer 7

the theory that a nation’s economic strength came from selling more than it bought from other nations

Question 8

Navigation acts

Answer 8

a series of English laws beginning in the 1650’s that regulated trade between England and its colonies

Question 9

Triangular Trade

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Yankees

Answer 10

a nickname for New Englanders