Big Bad Britain
Health conditions were poor in the colonies, that these events slowed the growth of the early colonies as large numbers of people contracted smallpox and other diseases.
What are epidemics?
The words describing Democratic ideas, practices, and values that form a truly free society are called this.
What are civic virtues?
A partnership in a time of war is called this.
What is an alliance?
Colonists began to form these types of groups, which are military groups consisting of ordinary citizens.
What is a militia?
A person who agrees to work under a skilled craftsperson as a way of learning a trade is called this.
What is an apprentice?
The permanent movement of people into one country is called this.
What is immigration?
These are goods that a country sends out into the world marketplace.
What are exports?
These are goods that a country receives from the international marketplace.
What are imports?
England had a tradition of establishing this type of government, where people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government.
What is a representative democracy?
In 1689, Parliament proposed this document which stated that citizens had a number of rights that cannot be removed by a monarchy.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Colonists instituted the laws, which were rules governing the behavior and punishments of enslaved people.
What are slave codes?
This "trade route" refers to the network of routes between England, the Americas, and Africa that helped bring slaves to America from Africa.
What is triangular trade?
The specific route from Africa to the Americas carrying slaves was called this.
What is the Middle Passage?
This religious movement that helped spread information through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the Great awakening.
Agriculture grown in large quantities to immediately sell at markets is known as this.
What is a cash crop?
This Ottawa chief led a large confederation of Native Americans on multiple attacks against Ft. Detroit and other locations.
Who is Pontiac?
At the end of this war, France was forced to leave North America and England took control of Canada but was left with huge war debt.
What is the French and Indian War.
This powerful group of Native Americans refused to sign any treaty with any foreign group.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This movement began in Europe in the 1700s that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could help improve society.
What is the Enlightenment?
In 1215, the English people forced the king to sign this document, also known as the Great Charter, which gave the English people protection from the king and created Parliament.
What is the Magna Carta?
According to this document, British colonists were banned from settling lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Proclamation of 1763.
Colonial delegates met in New York to discuss this plan of Benjamin Franklin’s which proposed a united colonial government.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
Farmers who produce just enough crop to meet the needs of their families are participating in the practice of this.
What is subsitence farming?
This printer was tried for seditious libel from printing the truth about a New York governor.
Who was Zenger?
England operated under this economic system, where a country’s wealth and power is gained by controlling trade and building its supplies of gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?