Farming practiced in New England that produced just enough food for the family.
What is subsistence farming?
100
The type of colony that elected their own governor and members of both houses.
What is a charter colony?
100
A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies.
What is a militia?
100
The name of the war between France and Britain.
What is the Seven Years' War?
100
Strict laws that governed the behavior of slaves.
What is slave codes?
200
Shipping routes developed among the colonies, Great Britain, Africa, and the West Indies.
What is triangular trade?
200
The type of colony where Parliament appointed the governor and council (upper house) under direct British rule.
What is a royal colony?
200
The most powerful group of Native Americans in the East.
Who are the Iroquois Confederacy?
200
Britain's fortune changed in the war when this great military planner came to power.
Who is William Pitt?
200
Parliament passed a series of laws in the 1650's that directed the flow of goods between England and the colonies.
What is the Navigation Acts?
300
Farmers in New York and Pennsylvania grew large quantities of wheat and other crops to be sold.
What is cash crops?
300
The chosen owner of this colony ruled as they wished and appointed the governor along with the upper house.
What is a proprietary colony?
300
Geoge Washington established this fort near present day Pittsburgh and was defeated by the French.
What is Fort Necessity?
300
This document marked the end of France as a power in North America.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
300
The inhumane aspect of shipping enslaved Africans to the West Indies.
What is the Middle Passage?
400
A region of flat lowlands along the seacoast, where most Southern plantations were located.
What is the Tidewater?
400
A religious revival that swept through the colonies in the 1730's-1740's that called for a return to a strong faith.
What is the Great Awakening?
400
This proposal sought to unite the American colonies against the French.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
400
This leader recognized that British settlers threatened the way of life for Native Americans.
Who is Pontiac?
400
The first North American college.
What is Harvard?
500
To sell abroad and to buy from foreign markets.
What is export and import?
500
The colonist who exemplified the Enlightenment; the idea that knowledge, reason and science can improve society.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
The British commander who was sent to conquer the French in the Ohio Valley.
Who is General Edward Braddock?
500
King George III declared the Appalachian Mountains the temporary western boundary for all colonies, to prevent more fighting between the colonists and the Native Americans.