Slavery in the Colonies
Enslaved people in these colonies worked for households, businesses, and small farms. White people only owned one or two enslaved people.
What is the New England Colonies?
This governing body helped unite the 13 colonies.
What was the Continental Congress?
This Act required that stamps be purchased and placed on all legal documents and printed materials in the American colonies, including newspapers, pamphlets, and even playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
Everyone wanted to settle in this place because of the good land for farming and the fur trade.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
To refuse to buy, use, or go to, in order to make a protest or bring about a change
What is a boycott?
In these colonies there were large plantations and the labor needed to grow cash crops, like tobacco and cotton, plantation owners had many enslaved people who did very hard work in the fields.
What is the southern colonies?
These men had to be ready in a minutes notice.
Who are the minutemen?
During this event an object was thrown from the crowd and hit one of the soldiers. The soldier fired a shot into the crowd even though he did not have orders to do so and killed 5 people.
What was the Boston Massacre?
They wanted to protect their trade with the American Indians and built forts to protect the land.
What is the French?
Added cost to some goods, services, incomes and property to pay for services the government provides
What is a tax?
In these colonies enslaved people became helpers to the craftsman and learned skills. They became blacksmiths, shoemakers, carpenters, coopers, etc. These job skills made an enslaved person more valuable.
What is the middle colonies?
Going to war is expensive. Great Britain needed to pay to send soldiers to North America all the way from Europe. They needed to pay for food, clothing and supplies for the soldiers. How did they get money for this?
What is taxes?
Parliament passed the this Act which made the British East India Company the only company where colonists could buy tea.
What is the Tea Act of 1773?
They wanted to remain living on the land in the Ohio River Valley and keep their way of life.
Who is the American Indians?
To take back or to cancel a law
What is repeal?
Theft and Destruction of Property, Culture, Music, Religion and Education, Maintaining the Family, Avoiding Work, Rebellion, Running Away by slaves are all examples of what?
What is resistance?
This is the name for Britain owing a lot of money after the war.
What is debt?
This word is used when a product or service can only be bought from one supplier for a specific market.
What is a monopoly?
These two countries were enemies and both wanted to control the rich farmlands and fur trade in the Ohio River Valley.
What is France and Britain?
What vocabulary word means to go against or not give into something?
What is resist?
This Act created a much higher tax on sugar, coffee, cloth and molasses that came from any country other than Great Britain. This made sugar from other places cost more. Colonists could no longer afford to buy these goods from other countries.
What is the Sugar Act of 1764?
During this event colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded a ship on a winters night and dumped 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The war _______ with a signed agreement between France and Britain called the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
How did the war end?
a statement or action expressing disapproval of something
What is a protest?