Vocabulary
A person who travel to America and agreed to work as payment for his voyage.
What is an indentured servant?
Trade item that originated in the West Indies and was exported to the American colonies, England, and Africa.
What is Sugar Sugar?
New York started as a colony controlled by what country?
What is the Dutch (Netherlands)?
The dispute over this land area caused the French and Indian War.
What is Ohio River Valley.
The main reason the colonies of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Maryland were started was
What is religoius freedom?
Religious group who left England for religious freedom and founded the Plymouth colony.
Who are the Pilgrims?
The three places involved in triangular trade.
What is England(Europe), America(s) and Africa?
The main economic activity in the South.
What is plantations/farming?
Name and EXPLAIN two main causes of the war
answers will vary
The major colonial shipbuilding ports were in this region.
What is New England?
Religious group who believed in religious tolerance, equality and non-violence.
Who are the Quakers?
The slaves journey from Africa to America
What is the Middle Passage?
The main economic activity in the middle colonies
What is cash crops?
He was a young general for the British who retreated during the first initial conflict with the French. This action is believed to have started the war.
Who is George Washington?
The Pilgrims agreed to create fair laws and govern themselves using this agreement.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Trade route that included England, Africa, and the Colonies.
What is the Triangular Trade?
The colonial region that used the most slave labor.
What is the Southern Colonies?
Two main industries in New England
fishing, shipbuilding, trade
Two effects of the French and Indian War were
What is Britain gains land east of Mississippi, Britain debt, resentment over debt with colonies, N. Americans lost land, France loses North American land, American Revolution?
This was the main influence in the economic development of the three region.
What is geography and climate?
This economic theory says that countries create wealth by increasing exports while limiting imports.
What is mercantilism?
England's main export
What is False?
The main reason for which New York and New Jersey were founded
What is trade?
What were the main advantages of the French during the initial phase of the war?
more organized, better trained
This region was most known for its diversity of people.
middle colonies