Vocabulary
A system in which people are bought and sold as if they were property
What is slavery?
This product was traded along the route that is labeled A on the map? (Use map on text page 114)
From England to America
What is tea?
This colony was founded by Quakers
What is Pennsylvania?
This product was traded by Southern colonists who lived near the coast?
What is tobacco?
Name one way that the natural environment affected colonial settlers. Name one way that the settlers affected the natural environment.
Sample Answer:
The different climates and types of soil affected the settlers. For example the New England colonies had rocky soil so they fished and harvested lumber while in the south there was rich soil so they became farmers and grew tobacco. The settlers affected the environment by clearing trees and land. They also built roads and bridges.
A skilled worker or craftsperson
What is an artisan?
This product was traded along the route labeled B on the map? (Use the map on page 115)
From the Colonies to Africa.
What is rum?
This religious group settled in the New England colonies?
Who are the Puritans?
Why there more slaves in the Southern colonies than in the Northern colonies
What is Southern farms needed many workers?
In the triangular trade, what were two products the colonists shipped to England? What were two products that England shipped to the colonies?
Sample Answer:
The colonists shipped timber, grain, tobacco, and rice to England. England shipped tools, tea, clothing, and manufactured goods to the colonists.
A military partner
Who is an ally?
This is an example of an artisan
What is a blacksmith?
Also: carpenters, wigmakers, basketmakers, and tinsmiths
Why did colonists sometimes dam, or block, rivers?
What is to to get power from flowing water?
One way that life for enslaved people was different in the South than in the North
What is in the South, enslaved people lived in communities?
What were the three classes in colonial society? In the triangle below, write the name of each class in one of the three rows, starting with the highest class. Then, write one example of an occupation from each class below the name of the class. (Text page 117)
The three classes of society were the gentry, the middle class, and the lower class.
Gentry = landowners, merchants, church leaders Middle class = small farmers, shopkeepers, artisans Lower class = ordinary workers and servants
A formal agreement between two countries
What is a treaty?
This colony was known for its good relations with Native Americans
What is Georgia?
King Philip’s War was an example of this.
What is Native Americans resisting New England colonists?
An example of enslaved people resisting slavery
What is breaking the tools?
Identify and describe two ways in which African Americans affected life in the American colonies.
Sample answer:
They brought knowledge about farming from their African homes that made the farms more successful in the colonies as well as African words, food, and music.
Someone who owns land or property
Who is a proprietor?
This term BEST describes the English laws that limited colonial trade?
(The British wanted to control the trade from the colonies)
What is mercantilism?
Why some Native Americans side with the British in the French and Indian War
What is they hoped doing so would help them keep control of their land?
Why the Ottawa people were upset with the outcome of the French and Indian War
What is they did not want British settlers building towns on their land?
What physical boundary formed the western boundary of the colonies? How was the Proclamation of 1763 supposed to affect colonial settlers? How did it actually affect them?
Sample Answer:
The Appalachian Mountains was a physical border on the western boundary. The Proclamation Act of 1763 blocked the colonists from settling in the Ohio River Valley which actually angered the colonists and was the beginning of conflict or trouble with Great Britain.