colonies and their regions
French and Indian War
vocabulary
exploration
after the French and Indian War
100
What region is in the northernmost group of colonies?
New England
100
Who were the two European countries battling in the French and Indian War?
France and England
100
How are the triangle trade and the middle passage related?
The middle passage is the part of the triangular trade that moved slaves from Africa to the Americas.
100
Who is the European explorer who founded the Americas in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
100
Why did the colonists want to go west?
They wanted land
200
This group of colonies was known as the bread basket. They produced cash crops of wheat and corn.
Middle Colonies
200
What was the turning point of the French and Indian War?
Battle of Quebec and the Plains of Abraham
200
What is the system where the mother country gets rich by exporting goods to their colonies?
mercantilism
200
Who is the European Explorer who found New York City?
Henry Hudson
200
Why was Chief Pontiac important?
he organized the natives to rebel against the English
300
Which group of colonies included Virgina?
Southern
300
Who won the French and Indian War?
English
300
What is the difference between subsistence farming and cash crops?
Subsistence farming is only growing enough for you to use, and cash crops are things you sell for money
300
Which European country controled each color on the map?
Blue- France
Red- England
Yellow- Spain
300
Why was Washington's role in the French and Indian War important?
He learned how to command an army, organize supplies, build a fort and create military strategies.
He learned how to be a military leader.
400
Name a colony known for shipbuiding and cod fishing.
Massachusettes
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Rhode Island
400
The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. What happened to England and what happened to France?
France lost all land in America and England gained most it.
400
Slave codes did not allow slaves to do what?
Learn to read and write
gather in groups
leave the property of the owner without permission
400
What is the picture below showing?
Columbian Exchange
400
What does the cartoon tell the colonists they need to do?
Work together of they will all fall apart
500
Which group of colonies would have grown tobacco, rice and indigo as cash crops?
Southern colonies
500
What happened as a result of British (English) debt after the French and Indian War?
England raised taxes on the colonists who did not want to pay them
500
Many people joined these groups to help protect their land.
Militia
500
What explains the decrease in the Native American population that the graph shows?
Europeans brought disease
500
How was the goal of George Washington's first military job for the government (delivering the ultimatum to the French in the Ohio River Valley) the opposite of the goal for the Proclamation of 1763?
Washington wanted the French out so the colonists could move in but the Proclamation wanted to keep the colonists out