Colonial Economy
This economic theory guided European countries in the 17th century, making them compete to establish colonies and pursue wealth and power over rivals.
What is mercantilism?
Protestant England was challenging Spain's dominance of the Atlantic and their position as Europe's strongest defender of this branch of Christianity.
What is Catholic?
The French and Indian War was fought between France and Britain over the territory along this midwestern river.
What is the Ohio River?
The name for the French territories in the New World.
What is New France?
This is the name given to the maritime trade across the Atlantic that linked Europe, Africa and the Americas.
What is Triangular Trade?
This was the name given to Spain's powerful fleet of ships that dominated trade in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Armada?
This war was fought between the British and native Americans over land around the Great Lakes.
What was Pontiac's War?
This is the name given to the maritime route explorers believed would lint the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This was the name given to the maritime route frequently used to transport African bodies to plantations in the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
After England defeated the Spanish in 1588, the English could now cross the Atlantic and establish _____ in the New World.
What are colonies?
After their loss in the French and Indian War, France lost all territory east of this river, that empties into the Gulf of Mexico/America.
What is the Mississippi River?
These people objected to corruption in the Catholic Church and by attempting to reform it, they ultimately broke with it to form new churches.
Who are Protestants?
The Columbian Exchange is the name given to the exchange of crops, livestock and ______ between the American and Europe.
What is disease?
England never attempted to take Spain's colonies from it, but after the French and Indian war did take over this east coast colony from Spain.
What is Florida?
This treaty ended the French and Indian War.
What was the Treaty of Paris?
During the French and Indian War, Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan for the colonies to form a council to pay for and coordinate the defense of the colonies.
What is the Albany Plan?
These large farms were created to grow cash crops with the labor of enslaved people in the Caribbean and southern English colonies.
What are plantations?
She was queen of England at the time of England's rivalry with Spain and lead the English to victory in 1588 against the Spanish navy.
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
After the French and Indian War, King Gorge III issues this proclamation forbidding colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mts.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
The first English arrivals to the New World on the Mayflower established this colony.
What is Plymouth?