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100
Lisa Simpson best reflected the ideas of this Enlightenment thinker.
Who is John Locke?
100
Name two of the cash crops grown in the South.
What are tobacco, indigo, rice or cotton
100
The Fort built by Washington in an attempt to fight the French.
What is Fort Necessity?
100
The Navigation Acts restricted the colonies to trading only with ____.
What is England?
100
True or False - England and the colonies had control of the Mississippi River at the end of the French and Indian War.
What is False?
200
The three natural rights that every person was born with.
What is life, liberty and property?
200
This area of the nation tended to be more urban, educated and had a diversified economy.
What is the North?
200
The area in dispute during the French and Indian War?
What is the Ohio River Valley (Pittsburgh)?
200
In order to get around trade restrictions, colonists often resorted to ___ to get goods from other countries that they wanted.
What is smuggling?
200
The 22 year old General sent by Virginia to evict the French from their fort.
Who is George Washington?
300
This enlightenment thinker's ideas would be reflected in a dictatorship or an absolute monarchy.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
300
The Triangular Trade described the trade routes between which countries?
What are the colonies, Great Britain, Africa, and the Caribbean?
300
England and the colonists were taking a beating until this General stepped in and changed the course of the war.
Who is William Pitt?
300
Because of this policy, colonists were used to mostly doing things on their own and got used to self-government.
What is salutary neglect?
300
He drew the "Join or Die" cartoon.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
The ideas of the Enlightenment later would take shape in which famous American document?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
The middle passage refers to which part of the Triangular Trade
What is the part of the voyage that brought Africans over to the Americas?
400
After the war, Parliament passed the ___ in order to get money to pay down their war debt.
What is the Sugar Act?
400
The Proclamation of 1763 upset the colonists because___.
What is they were not allowed to move west of the Appalachian Mountains?
400
This state was once a part of Massachusetts.
What is Maine?
500
Give an example of an Enlightenment idea that is reflected in our laws.
What is trial by jury, no torture, freedom of speech, etc.?
500
The idea behind ___ was that a country has a favorable balance of trade when it exports more than it imports.
What is mercantilism?
500
At the start of the war the Native Americans fought on the side of the ____. By the end of the war they fought on the side of the ___. They switched sides because
What is French, English/colonists, and they wanted to be treated well by the winners.
500
Name two reasons for the growing tensions between the colonists and England after the French and Indian War?
What is being taxed, England cracking down on smuggling, and/or the Proclamation of 1763?
500
The governing body in England that made laws. They had representatives from England, but none from the colonies.
What is Parliament?