Taxes and Policies
Slavery and Southern Colonies
Northern Commerce
French & Indian War
Et Cetera
100
Act of George Greenville and Parliament that halved the duty on foreign made molasses, placed taxes on certain imports and strengthened the enforcement of the Navigational Acts
What is the Sugar Act?
100
Term referring to the voyage of slaves from Africa to the West Indies (and later North America)
What is the Middle Passage?
100
Colonial leader influenced but the Enlightenment and in particular, natural rights
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The French and Indian War is the North American extension of this conflict
What is the Seven Years War
100
Colonial militia leader who met defeat at Ft. Necessity
Who is George Washington?
200
The economic theory that sets self-sufficiency as the ultimate goal of nations.
What is mercantilism?
200
Refers to the three-way trading process between New England, Africa and the Southern Colonies
What is Triangular Trade?
200
Religious revival in the 1730's and 1740's that brought Native Americans, African Americans and colonists into organized Christian churches for the first time
What is the Great Awakening?
200
Native American tribe that William Pitt allied with that to in the defeat of France
Who are the Iroquois?
200
People who made up the majority of the population of New France
Who are priests and fur traders?
300
Legislative body in England that controlled taxation in the colonies.
What is Parliament?
300
Large-scale farms that focused on producing one particular crop and often relied on slave labor
What are Plantations?
300
Reasons the northern colonies did not develop plantation system
What are: 1) Rocky soil made planting difficult 2) Weather less favorable than southern colonies
300
The difference in the way the French related to Native Americans to that of the English
What is 1) The French viewed the N.A. as equals 2) Traded with them rather than took their lands
300
Name of the region in dispute between the British and the French
What is the Ohio River Valley?
400
Causes of the Glorious Revolution in England
What is: 1) Stewart kings were Catholic 2) England was Protestant and were threatened by a succession of Catholic kings
400
The reason plantation owners turned to Africans to provide slave labor in the colonies
What is: 1) Indentured Servants were becoming fewer and more expensive 2) Native Americans were unreliable and escaped easily 3) African slave trade was already established in the West Indies and it would not be a stretch to bring it to the colonies
400
Colonial industries that in the 18th century exceeded production of those in England
What is ship building and iron production?
400
The construction of Ft. Dusquene
What is the spark that began the French and Indian War?
400
Banned settlements west of the Appalachian mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
500
Name forced on the northern colonies (including Massachusetts Bay Colony) by King James II ruled by Sir Edmund Andros
What is the Dominion of New England?
500
How Africans coped with the harsh life the experienced as slaves in North America
What are: 1) Crafts such as basket weaving and molding pottery 2) Musical traditions 3) Dance 4) Story Telling
500
Yale educated minister who led the effort to revive the intensity and commitment of the original Puritan vision for Massachusetts.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
500
Military tactic that helped the British win the Battle of Quebec in 1759 which led tothe defeat of the French in North America
What is scaling the high cliffs that protected the city under cover of night?
500
Motivation for King James II to crackdown on the Puritans in Massachusetts in 1684
What is: 1) A longstanding hostility to royal authority 2) Belief that their charter did not require them to obey English laws
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