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What theory states that a nation's power depends on expanding its trade?
Mercantilism
100
What is a group of civilians trained to fight called?
militia
100
What were the colonies' first colleges set up to do?
To train ministers
100
What document marked the end of France as a power in North America?
Treaty of Paris
100
What type of farming was practiced in New England?
subsistence
200
What was the main cash crop of South Carolina and Georgia?
Rice
200
What proposal sought to unite the American colonies against the French?
Albany Plan of Union
200
What was the most inhumane part of the triangular trade?
The Middle Passage
200
During the wars between France and Great Britain, how did Native Americans often help the French?
Raiding British settlements
200
The Seven Years' War was between what two countries?
France and Britain
300
In what Southern region were most of the small farms located?
backcountry
300
What did the success of large plantations in the Southern Colonies depended on?
Slavery
300
The Great Awakening resulted in a renewed interest in what?
Religion
300
Who changed Britain's fortune in the war with France?
William Pitt
300
What area of North America was the hub of the shipping trade?
New England
400
What were plantation bosses who kept the enslaved Africans working hard called?
Overseers
400
What did the Proclamation of 1763 call for?
A halt to westward expansion
400
What right did widows and unmarried women not have?
The right to vote
400
What British commander was sent to conquer the French in the Ohio Valley?
Edward Braddock
400
What country viewed the North American colonies as an economic resource?
England
500
What Act directed the flow of goods between England and the colonies?
Navigation Acts
500
What is a colony called where an owner or group of owners named the colony's governer?
Proprietary colony
500
What American was the best example of the Enlightenment way of thinking?
Benjamin Franklin
500
Which leader recognized that British settlers threatened the Native Americans' way of life?
Pontiac
500
Why was the Albany Plan of Union not approved by the colonies?
Colonies were not willing to give up any of their power