Governing the Colonies
The colonists adopted many of their ideas about government from?
What is Great Britain?
Who were the heads of the colonial families?
The men
It was illegal to teach a slave to read and write
True or False?
True
British economic policy under which the country built it's wealth by exporting more than importing?
What is Mercantilism?
Treaty that ended the French and Indian War (1754-1763)
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The first document signed in 1215 to place limits on an English ruler's power.
What is the Magna Carta?
Who in colonial families usually handled childcare and domestic duties?
The women.
Slave Codes
What is the name of the strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves?
Crops grown to make a profit
What are cash crops?
New England's townspeople discussed their local problems in these gatherings...
What is a town meeting?
English lawmaking body that came out of Magna Carta?
What is English Parliament?
How did a young man learn a trade in colonial society?
Becoming an apprentice
What is the trade between the colonies, Africa, and the Caribbean called.
Triangular Trade
Type of farming practiced in New England
What is subsistence farming?
What was the main cause of the French and Indian War?
land claims in the Ohio River Valley
Who had the right to vote in the English colonies?
White men property owners
The first colleges in the colonies were founded to train these people?
Ministers
What is the shipment of slaves to the Americas called?
Middle Passage
Under Mercantilism, what was the purpose of the colonies?
1. make profit for England
2. provide raw materials/markets for finished goods
Plan of Benjamin Franklin to join the colonies together during the French and Indian War.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
The Zenger Case helped establish the right of?
Freedom of the Press.
What was the greatest cause of shorter life expectancy for colonial women?
Childbirth
What was the greatest factor in the growth of Southern slavery?
The plantation system.
These acts (series of laws) limited colonial trade and required all colonial products to be sent only to English ports
What is the Navigation Acts of 1650?
What did the Proclamation Line of 1763 do?
halt westward expansion/settlement