Key Terms 1:
This economic theory said colonies existed to benefit the mother country by supplying raw materials.
What is mercantilism?
Colonial women were largely responsible for these domestic tasks, including spinning, cooking, and child-rearing.
What are household chores?
Men and women wealthy enough to hire others to work for them
What is gentry (the gentry class)?
Resistance during the Middle Passage sometimes took the form of revolts, hunger strikes, or this desperate act.
What is suicide (jumping overboard)?
The Middle Passage began on this continent.
What is Africa?
Under mercantilism, colonies were expected to buy manufactured goods only from this European nation.
What is England?
This was the name given to the brutal voyage enslaved Africans endured across the Atlantic.
What is the Middle Passage?
Type of plant used in making blue dye for cloth
What is indigo?
This crop, known as “brown gold,” was the main cash crop of Virginia
What is tobacco?
British colonists pushed westward into French territory because they were running out of this in the coastal colonies.
What is land for expansion (land, resources, water)?
Mercantilism measured a nation’s wealth by its stockpile of this precious resource.
What is gold (and silver)?
The Middle Passage was one leg of this larger trade system connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
A crop that is in constant demand
What is a staple crop or cash crop?
Southern colonies relied heavily on these large farms, worked by enslaved people.
What are plantations?
This colony, settled by William Penn, offered religious freedom to all Christian groups
What is Pennsylvania?
In New England, this industry thrived thanks to abundant forests and access to the Atlantic.
What is shipbuilding?
The Middle Passage primarily transported enslaved Africans to work on plantations producing this cash crop in the Caribbean.
What is sugar?
Great Britain’s policy of not interfering in the colonies’ politics economy so long as it served British interests
What is salutary neglect?
In Puritan New England, children were taught to read mainly so they could study this book.
What is the Bible?
These three groups will all be involved in the French and Indian War.
What the the British, French, and Native Americans?
The Southern colonies relied heavily on this type of labor to work their plantations.
What is enslaved labor?
This was the name of the religious revival movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s–1740s.
What is the Great Awakening?
Group that existed in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region; set up fur trading posts to trade with Native Americans
Who are the Frrench?
This deadly factor—spreading rapidly in cramped ship conditions—was a leading cause of death during the Middle Passage.
What is disease?
This city is where the French and Indian War started in 1754.
What is Pittsburgh (or Duquesne)?