Technology and Economics
These are two cash crops important to the Carolina colonies.
two of these:
tobacco, rice, indigo
This word best describes the traveling lifestyles of Indian tribes in the Americas.
nomadic
This pamphlet written by Thomas Paine helped to convince colonists that America should separate from Britain.
Common Sense
This term describes the undeveloped area at the edge of the colonial settlements.
frontier
This was the name given to energetic militiamen to be ready to fight the British at short notice.
Minutemen
This was the major business activity of the Frenchman who came to North America.
Fur trading
It was in these places that Christian Indians lived in order to learn about European laws, manners, and town life.
Praying towns
This university was the first institution of higher learning in the colonies.
Harvard
This is another, more common name for Norsemen.
Vikings
This was the name for the Virginians' first representative assembly.
House of Burgesses
These were known as large farms mainly existing in the southern colonies.
Plantations
This is another name for the non-confrontational "Society of Friends".
Quakers
The Jamestown Colony was founded in this year.
1607
Along with Britain, early American colonies had to contend with this country for land claims in the Ohio Valley and along the St. Lawrence River.
France
King George III
This system allowed young men to learn a trade while living in the colonies.
Apprenticeship
This "fire-breathing" paster from Northampton, Massachusetts helped revive American faith during the Great Awakening with messages like "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
This British officer surrended to George Washington at Yorktown to officially end the American Revolution.
Charles Cornwallis
It was in these colonies that availed themselves to ample timer for a thriving shipbuilding industry.
This is the term for an assigned charge on imported goods.
Tariff
These armed merchant ships played a large role in the Revolutionary War.
Privateers
This portion of the Constitution contains amendments such as Freedom of Religion, Bearing Arms, Assembly, and more.
Bill of Rights
It was in this incident that the French tried to bribe the American envoys during the war between France and Britain.
The XYZ Affair
He's the Italian explorer who proved that Columbus had discovered a "new world"; he's also the namesake for the USA.
Amerigo Vespucci
This is the name of the system devised by the Constitution to elect the president.
Electoral college