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100
The area along the coast where tobacco was grown in the South.
What is Tidewater?
100
The most outstanding American preacher of the Great Awakening.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
100
The French fort that was built in what is now the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
What is Fort Duquesne?
100
The economy in this section of the colonies was based on tobacco and rice.
What are the Southern colonies?
100
the inhumane part of the triangular trade when Africans were sent to the West Indies.
What is the Middle passage?
200
variety or difference that often results in tolerance.
What is Diversity?
200
The best known American scientist in the colonies.
Who is Ben Franklin?
200
This fort was the site of the only place that George Washington ever had to surrender during his entire military career.
What is Fort Necessity?
200
a farm crop raised to be sold for money.
What is a cash crop?
200
This movement spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
a trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa.
What is the Triangular Trade Route?
300
The newspaper writer who was taken to court because he wrote an article critical of the royal governor of New York.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
300
The French and Indian War was waged largely over disputes concerning ownership of this valley.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
300
the theory that a state's or nation's power depended on it's wealth.
What is mercantilism?
300
only white male property owners had this right.
What is the right to vote?
400
a powerful group of Native Americans in the eastern part of the United States made up of five nations.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
400
He was sent to tell the French to leave the Ohio River Valley by Governor Robert Dinwiddie.
Who is George Washington?
400
The surrender of this city, in 1760, marked the end of the French and Indian War.
What is Montreal?
400
trading illegally with other nations.
What is smuggling?
400
the person who supervises a large operation or its workers.
What is an overseer?
500
farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced
What is subsistence farming?
500
George Washington tried to tell this commander that his army's style of fighting would not work against the French and Native American forces.
Who is General Edward Braddock?
500
In this battle, both English General Wolfe and French General Montcalm were killed.
What is the Battle of the Plains of Abraham?
500
goods that are sold abroad.
What are exports?
500
an assistant who is assigened to learn the trade of a skilled craftsman.
What is an apprentice?