Vocabulary
This religious movement of the 1730s and 1740s emphasized personal faith and individual choice.
What is the Great Awakening?
This region of the colonies was known as the "bread basket" due to its fertile soil.
What are the Middle Colonies?
These served as community centers in New England.
What are Congregational churches?
The nation that Britain ultimately defeated in the French and Indian War.
What is France?
The rigid class system created by the plantation system included this group with no rights.
What are enslaved people?
A large farm that grows crops for sale rather than for the farmer's own use.
What is a plantation?
New England's rocky soil and harsh winters made this type of farming difficult.
What is large-scale farming?
The primary reason education was valued in New England.
What is because reading the Bible was important to religious life?
The main flashpoint for conflict between Britain and France before the French and Indian War.
What is the Ohio Valley?
The primary reason the Southern plantation system depended on enslaved labor.
What is large-scale agriculture required significant labor?
This 1763 proclamation prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
These three economic activities became major industries in New England due to geography.
What are shipbuilding, fishing, and maritime trade?
This college was founded in New England to train ministers.
What is Harvard College?
A major consequence of the French and Indian War for Native Americans.
What is they lost their French allies and faced British expansion?
How the colonial population roughly changed every 25 years during the 1700s.
What is it doubled?
Population growth that comes from births within the colonial population, not immigration.
What is natural increase?
This valuable crop was grown in South Carolina alongside rice.
What is indigo?
The type of government body that each colony developed to control local taxation and spending.
What is a representative assembly?
The major shift in British colonial policy after the French and Indian War.
What is Britain stationed troops in the colonies and imposed new taxes?
How the Proclamation of 1763 affected colonists' attitudes toward British rule.
What is it angered them and contributed to resentment?
The trade route that connected New England to Africa and the West Indies.
What is the triangular trade?
The first major cash crop in Virginia that brought wealth to early colonists.
What is tobacco?
This characteristic of the Middle Colonies attracted settlers from many different backgrounds.
What is religious tolerance?
This group of colonists fought alongside British regulars during the French and Indian War.
What is the militia?
The type of identity colonists began to develop after fighting in the French and Indian War.
What is an American identity?