Vocabulary
What is a military force made up of ordinary citizens?
Militia
What is bringing in or buying products from other countries?
Import
What was the principal cash crop in Maryland and Virginia?
Tobacco
What is the name of Parliament's two house?
The House of Lords and the House of Commons.
What is the democratic ideas, practices, and values that form a truly free society?
Civic Virtue
What is the permanent moving of people into one country from other countries?
Immigration
What is it called when you sell or trade to other countries?
Export
Name a religious group of people who completely opposed slavery.
Puritans, Quakers, Mennonites
Who was included in the House of Commoners?
Merchants and property owners.
Who were the British and the French trying to win over?
The Native Americans
What is the producing enough to meet the needs of their families, with little left over to sell or trade?
Subsistence farming
What is an outbreaks that affect large numbers of people?
Epidemic
What was an important industry in the New England colonies?
Shipbuilding
Who was included in the House of Lords?
Upper and ruling class.
Who was in charge of the British in North America?
William Pitt
What are rules governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved people?
Slave Codes
What is a government where people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government?
Representative government
Did the New England, Middle, or Southern colonies have the most diversity?
What was the revival that swept through the colonies and it allowed people to have more religious freedom?
The Great Awakening
Why did the Native Americans not want to help the British?
They treated them horribly in the past. The French traded furs and goods with them.
What is it called when a country builds its wealth from increasing its supplies of gold and silver?
Mercantilism
What are crops that could be sold easily in markets in the colonies and overseas?
Cash Crops
What was the trip across the ocean called that included the triangular trade?
The Middle Passage
What is the name of the movement that brought the idea of knowledge, reason, and science?
The Enlightenment
Who was the Iroquois Confederacy made up of?
Made up of Native Americans. Included a representative from each tribe.