Vocabulary
War fought from 1754 to 1763 in which Britain and its colonies defeated France and its Indian allies.
What is the French and Indian War?
The three part voyage that the enslaved Africans took to get to the Americas.
What is the triangular trade?
Who elected members of the House of Commoners?
Who are commoners?
What type of servants helped raise crops in the Chesapeake region?
What are indentured servants?
Most women were legal defendants of men, as a result, who had the in colonial households?
Who are men?
Elementary school during colonial times, often operated out of a women’s home.
What is a Dome school.
These colonies became the most ethically and culturally diverse in the British empire.
What are the Middle Colonies?
What type of men could vote?
Who are men with property?
In the Southern Colonies, near the coast, what did the population consist of?
Who are African slaves?
These women could not own property, could not vote, could not hold political office, and could not serve on a jury.
Who are married women?
The constitutional guarantee that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed?
What is Habeas Corpus?
These factors led to many English leaving their homeland.
What are religious and political turmoil?
What is Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 proposal to create one government for the 13 colonies?
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
According to the English law, colonists imported these from England.
What are manufactured goods?
These women could not inherit a portion of their husband’s property, but didn’t have any political rights.
Who are widowed women?
What famous document protected English nobles by limiting the king’s ability to tax common people?
What is Magna Carta?
What did British ships bring to Africa?
What are manufactured goods?
What is the declaration by the British king ordering all colonists to remain east of the Appalachian Mountains?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
In the mid 1600s, most colonies passed laws that supported this.
What is the permanent enslavement of Africans?
The first African American to publish a book of poems.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
A sheet of paper that displayed the alphabet and was protected by a thin plate of animal horn. This taught children to read.
What is a horn book?
These are the factors that pushed the Germans from Europe.
What are war, taxes, and religious persecution?
What is the nobles’ most important power?
What is the right to approve taxes?
As English immigration began to decline, who did colonist turn to for labor?
Who are enslaved Africans?
What king did King William and Queen Mary replace as a result of Glorius Revolution?
Who is King James II?