North American Colonies
The name for French claims in Canada
What is New France?
a tax on imported goods
What is a tariff?
Global exchange of crops, animals, precious metals, and diseases that profoundly affected the world
What is the Columbian Exchange?
International trade route the connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas
What is Triangular Trade?
North American war between colonial powers that was part of a larger, world-wide war for dominance between European powers
What was the French and Indian War?
Income from taxes for the King
What are revenues?
Period of history in which inflation rose rapidly
What is the Price Revolution?
What is Capitalism?
What is mutiny?
1607 - Founding of this colony
What is Jamestown?
English Protestants who rejected the Church of England
Who were Pilgrims?
New crops from the New World spreading around the world enabled this.
What is a global population boom?
a rise in prices linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available
What is inflation?
Second leg of triangular trade route on which slaves were taken from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
1620 Founding of this colony
What is the Massachusetts colony at Plymouth Rock?
An agreement among people
What is a compact?
This drastically reduced the population of people native to the Americas?
What is disease carried by Europeans?
national economies seek to increase the amount of silver and gold they own by exploiting colonies and exporting more products than they import
Thriving trade in support of the shipping industry led to the growth in these
What are port cities?
Colonies provided these for the European powers that owned them.
What are raw materials?
Agreement that ended the French and Indian War
What is the Treaty of Paris, 1763?
Two crops became a major staple in European farming
What are corn and potatoes?
Who were entrepreneurs?
2 million of the total 11 million slaves
What is the number of the slaves that died during the middle passage
The total length of the 7 Years War
What is 9 years? (1754-1763)