Colonies
This type of colony was given a document by the King, and elected their own legislatures and governor.
What is a charter colony?
True or False? American colonists valued education and taught their children from a young age how to read.
What is true?
This powerful Native American group allied with the British during the French and Indian War.
Who are the Iroquois Confederacy?
The French and Indian War was fought between these two European countries, with Native American allies used by both sides.
Who are France and Great Britain?
This type of farming was practiced in New England, due to the region's short growing season and poor soil.
What is subsistence farming?
This group of people worked off the debt paid to bring them to America, usually for 5-7 years, after which they were free to go where they chose.
What are indentured servants?
These regulated daily life and interactions for enslaved Africans.
What are slave codes?
This European group had the BEST relationship with Native Americans.
Who are the French?
This failed plan was proposed by Benjamin Franklin to unite the colonies against France.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
Many farmers grew these in the Southern and Middle Colonies?
What are cash crops?
This type of colony was ruled directly by the King of Great Britain.
What is a royal colony?
This was a religious movement that swept through the colonies from the 1720s until the 1740s.
What is the "Great Awakening?"
This European group used their friendly relationships with Native Americans to almost defeat the English in the French and Indian War.
Who are the French?
This was the British general who was sent in 1755 to attack Fort Duquesne in the Ohio Valley.
Who is General Edward Braddock?
Which region was the hub (center) of the shipping trade and shipbuilding?
What is New England?
This group became the main labor force for the large Southern plantations.
Who are enslaved Africans?
These were groups of trained civilians who were called up to defend the colonies.
What are militias?
This rebellion was led by an Ottawa chief who wanted to keep the British out of the Ohio River Valley in 1763.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion/War?
Who is William Pitt?
This is the main cash crop grown in Georgia and South Carolina, due to their humid and wet climate.
What is rice?
This type of colony was controlled by one person or a small group, who made all of the laws.
What is a proprietary colony?
What theory says that a nation's power depends on how much WEALTH it has?
What is mercantilism?
This law was passed in 1763, and it declared that British settlers could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This treaty marked the end of the Seven Years' War, effectively ending France being a great power in North America.
What is the 1763 Treaty of Paris?
What is the Tidewater?