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100

This series of laws restricted colonial trade to benefit England by ensuring goods were shipped on English ships and passed through English ports.

What are the Navigation Acts?

100

The British policy of relaxed enforcement of trade laws as long as the colonies remained loyal and profitable.

What was Salutary Neglect?

100

The growing wheat trade in this mid-eighteenth century brought an influx of poor families, which increased social divisions.    

What is Pennsylvania

100

This term describes the colonies of the Carolinas, New York, and Pennsylvania, established after 1660

What were Restoration Colonies?

100

The French and Indian War was started over the control of this part of North America. 

What was the Ohio River Valley?

200

This system integrated the colonies into a transatlantic trading network based on slave labor and plantation agriculture.

What was the South Atlantic System?

200

This attempt by King James II to tighten royal control combined several northern colonies under one royal governor.

What was the Dominion of New England?

200

These first colonists settled South Carolina and introduced racial slavery in the 1660s came from here.

What is Barbados?

200

The colony founded by William Penn, became a refuge for this peaceful English group 

Who were the Quakers? 

200

The political cartoon "JOIN OR DIE," was a cartoon warning against this issue.

What were the aggressive acts of Native Americans and French colonists?

300

Under this economic system, colonies were expected to provide raw materials to the mother country and serve as markets for manufactured goods.

What is mercantilism?

300

The end of Salutary Neglect began after this major war, when Britain started taxing the colonies to pay off war debt

What was the Great War for Empire or French and Indian War?

300

Despite legal restrictions, these colonists participated in economic life by engaging in running shops, taverns, or small businesses

Who were women?
300

The Pennsylvania colony was noted for peaceful relations with this Native American group.

Who were the Lenni Lenape or Delaware?

300

The French and Indian War caused this larger global conflict.

What was the Seven Year War or Great War for Empire?

400

This Caribbean colony became one of England’s wealthiest possessions due to its sugar plantations worked by enslaved Africans.

What was Barbados?

400

The royal governor of the Dominion of New England whose rule was overthrown during the Glorious Revolution.

Who was Sir Edmund Andros?

400

This movement emphasized growth of a religious faith that led colonists to see themselves as a chosen people blessed with liberty.

What was the Great Awakening?

400

This Restoration Colony was modeled after the plantation system in the West Indies.

What was South Carolina?

400

This British act restricted Anglo-American migration in the colonies was a result of Britain’s victory in the French and Indian War?

What was the Proclamation of 1763?

500

Established by Charles II in 1675, this administrative body was to advise on colonial affairs and trade.

What was the Lords of Trade

500

This political shift in England allowed the colonies to regain some autonomy after the fall of the Dominion of New England?

What was the Glorious Revolution?

500

Due to higher male mortality rates, this region of the colonies offered more opportunities for women to inherit or own property.

What is the Chesapeake?

500

By the 1770s, this northern city was the largest, most ethnically, economically, and religiously diverse urban center in the British Thirteen Colonies.

What was Philadelphia?

500

This North American war primarily fought in the western colonies followed directly after the Treaty of Paris of 1763.

What was Pontiac's Rebellion?