Vocab
What was the part of the triangle trade where slaves were taken from Africa and brought to the New World?
the middle passage
Colonist trained to fight in an emergency
militia
Who fought who in the French and Indian war?
Britain and France
These colonies were the hub of the shipping trade.
New England colonies
Who provided the majority of the labor for the southern cash crops?
Enslaved Africans
A crop that is grown and sold to make money
A cash crop
The name of the Native American leader who united the tribes of the Ohio RV area after the French surrendered because he viewed the British as a threat to their way of life.
Chief Pontiac
This plan would have united the colonies into one government should the French have decided to attack the colonies.
The Albany Plan of Union
These colonies that had a mix of both cash crops and businesses and trade
The Middle colonies
A religious revival that swept through the colonies.
The Great Awakening
This was the main type of farming practiced in New England.
Subsistence Farming
The young colonial officer sent to build a fought at present-day Pittsburg but was defeated and sent back to Virginia
George Washington
What battle started the French and Indian war?
The battle at Ft. Necessity.
The area along the coast where most plantation were located.
Tidewater
What native american group opted to side with the British b/c they were worries about the French and other native groups attacking the British through their country?
The Iroquois Confederacy
What theory claims that a nation's power is based on its amount of trade and wealth?
mercantilism
This was the British commander that was sent to conquer the Ohio RV but was defeated and killed after not taking advice from Washington.
General Edward Braddock
What was the main reason the British wanted control of the Ohio RV?
To participate in the trading and trapping the French were doing.
The area in the south where farmers had small farms that backed up against the Appalachian Mountains.
Backcountry
What are 2 ideas that British government was suppose to ensure.
Limited and representative government
South Carolina's 2 primary cash crops were
rice and indigo
He decided that Britain had to defeat France and spent money the country did not have to support the war.
William Pitt
Why was the Proclamation of 1763 passed and why did it anger the colonists?
State 2 reason
The battle at this place lead to France suing for peace, and looking to end the French and Indian war.
The Battle of Quebec
List 3 of the conditions slaves experienced during the middle passage.
Unsanitary conditions, whipping & beatings, little food or water leading to near starvation & dehydration, horrible smells/laying in one's waste, pack on top of each other, etc.