Lesson 1
Which region of Colonial American did NOT develop much industry?
What is the Southern Colonies?
What is the principle of protected rights?
The idea that the government should protect the people's rights
What was the Great Awakening?
What were the major powers in North America in the 1700s?
What is the British and French?
Why did the Southern planters begin to use enslaved Africans to work in the fields?
Servants were scarce and expensive
What is the principle of representative government?
The people elect representatives to make laws
What was the main reason for the population growth in the colonies?
What is immigration?
During the wars between the French and the British, how did the Native Americans often help the French?
What is raiding British settlements?
what were the first colleges in the colonies set up to do?
What is training ministers?
What was the name of the small post that George Washington established in Ohio country?
What is Fort Necessity?
Give three examples of cash crops grown in the colonies?
Tobacco, rice, corn, wheat
Which group controlled the economic and political life of the Southern Colonies?
What document marked the end of the France as a power in North America?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Why were the French and the Native Americans allies?
Intermarriage;
the French were more interested in furs than in land;
French converted many Native Americans to Catholicism.
What were the Navigation Acts, and why did the colonists come to resent them?
They were laws passed by England that forced the colonists to buy and sell only with England.
Colonists resented them because they wanted to manufacture their own goods and sell to other countries.