Vocab
Life in the Colonies
Government, Religion, and Culture
France and Britain Clash
The French and Indian War
100
Producing just enough to meet the needs of their families. Practiced in New England.
Subsistence Farming
100
Who provided the labor in the Southern rice fields?
Enslaved African Americans
100
Laws passed by the Parliament that prevented the colonists from sending certain products outside of England
Navigation Acts
100
Who did the Native Americans side with during the war?
French
100
The Proclamation of 1763 declared that the temporary western boundary for the colonies was what?
Appalachian Mountains
200
Group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies
Militia
200
The settlers in Jamestown saved their colony by planting what crop?
Tobacco
200
What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies?
Great Awakening
200
The Seven Years War was fought between who?
British and French
200
France lost control of its power in North America with the signing of this document
Treaty of Paris
300
Leg of the triangular trade route which enslaved African Americans were shipped to the West Indies
Middle Passage
300
What was the most profitable cash crop in South Carolina and Georgia?
Rice
300
Protestants who wanted to leave and found their own church were called what?
Separatists
300
Ben Franklin's plan that called for one general government was known as what?
Albany Plan of Union
300
Who was the Native American chief who lead an attack on the British?
Chief Pontiac
400
Laws that governed slaves
Slave Codes
400
Where were most of the large Southern plantations located?
Tidewater
400
What was the movement called that drove 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts
Great Migration
400
Who was the most powerful group of Native Americans in the East?
Iroquois Confederacy
400
Known as an outstanding military planner, he oversaw the war effort from London after coming to power
William Pitt
500
Wrote Pennsylvania's first constitution
William Penn
500
What nationality was most of the immigrants who came to the Middle Colonies?
German
500
The idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society was known as what movement?
Enlightenment
500
Name two reasons why the French had better relations with the Native Americans than the British?
Not interested in taking over their land, Married Native American women, mainly interested in trading furs
500
Who was the British commander in North America that marched to Fort Duquesne?
Edward Braddock
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