Vocab
What is the term for trading illegally?
Smuggling
What is one of the one of the main industries in New England
Shipbuilding
Who was the head of the household in the colonies
What type of government is it when you elect people to make/vote on laws in your place
Representative Government
What region did France and Britain fight over
Ohio River Valley
What is the term for crops that sold easily?
Cash crops
Which of the following means producing just enough to meet the family’s needs, with little left over to sell or exchange?
Subsistence farming
Movement that spread the ideas of knowledge, reason, and science
Enlightenment
What are the two documents that limits the power of the British King
Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights
Who was the Prime Minister who lead the British to victory
William Pitt
Something that means democratic ideas, practices, and values
What is the main industry in Southern Colonies
Farming
What are the two things that helped increase the population of the colonies
immigration & large families
What type of colonies are ones governed by a charter granted by the king?
Charter Colonies
Who create the Albany Plan and why did it fail
Benjamin Franklin and the colonies did not want to give up their power
A religious revival movement
Great Awakening
In the 1600s, many European nations followed which economic theory
Mercantilism
Why did the colonist value education?
They focused on learning to read so they could read the Bible
In royal colonies who appointed a governor and upper house
King/Parliament
What treaty ended the war
Treaty of Paris
What were the rules that governed enslaved people called?
Slave codes
What role did colonies have with mercantilism
they supplied raw material to the mother country
What are 3 jobs an older woman or widow would have
teacher, nurses, seamstresses
What type of government did local governments had
direct democracy
What law stopped colonist from moving further west
Proclamation of 1763