Potpourri
What was different about how colonists owned land and how Native American's owned land?
Colonists used boundaries to fence off their land and Native Americans had a relationship with the land and the resources it provided for their survival
What is another word for uprising?
Rebellion, fighting back,
What was the difference between slaves in the north and slaves in the south?
Slaves in the north were more personal servants and fewer in number, some were treated like part of the family, slaves in the south were much higher in number and were worked harder on plantations, doing physical labor.
How many colonies made up the New England, Mid Atlantic and Souther regions of North America
13
What used water to power it and ground wheat and corn into flour?
Gristmills
What do you call resources that can be made into other products and sold?
raw materials
What is someone who specializes in one type of work or trade
artisan
What were the three stages of trade that began in Europe, with goods being loaded and shipped to the coast of Africa, where the goods were exchanged for slaves and then the slaves were brought to the Americas where they were sold and the cycle started all over again?
Triangular trade
Who wrote about a mistake he made of buying an unnecessary item that did not benefit his family and what was the unnecessary item?
Who is Benjamin Franklin and a whistle?
Who was King Phillip?
Metacom a Wampanoag leader
What is an economic idea that was popular in the 1600's and 1700s, that suggested that governments should limit imports but increase manufacturing and exports.
merchantilism
What was the horrific journey to the Americas in which ships were overcrowded with captives wedged below decks and chained to platforms stacked on top of one another, where captive were unable to stand up or turn over, and many died in this postion called?
The Middle Passage
Tell me 3 ways that slaves fought back against slavery
learned to read and write, break tools, set fire to property, stall for time inspecting unimportant things, stealing food, taking or destroying the property of people who had stole their freedom
Who believed that people could pray in their own way and that women could be preachers and that all people had an "inner light", and that American Indians should have rights and that they should be paid a fair price for their land?
Who is William Penn?
Tell me 2 ways African Americans use songs.
To send secret messages and to share their culture
Who was the Puritan dissenter that thought that church leaders had too much power, and that having a relationship with God was more important than following church rules?
Anne Hutchinson
What is someone who owns land or property called?
What is a proprietor
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
A young girl sold into slavery who became a famous poet. She was also freed by her owners.
Can you name 5 of the original 13 colonies?
Massachusettts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia
What did French explorer Robert de La Salle help build after they attacked and destroyed a british trading post?
Fort Duquesne
Tell me 2 things the "Great Awakening" did for colonists.
1- It weakened the power of the church leaders, and it helped colonists realize that they didn't have to rely on church leaders to tell them how to live.
Explain to me the word gentry.
The gentry was the highest class in colonial society and consisted of large land owners, wealthy merchants, bankers, and church leaders.
How did Olaudah describe the merchant's yard?
Pent up or crammed together like sheep in a fold
What geograhic region made it difficult for colonists to move west?
Appalachian Mountains
Who said The French and the British are both quarreling about lands which belong to us, and such a quarrel as this may end in our destruction.
Hendrick Peters, Iroquois leader