Vocabulary
Laws that governed the slaves
What were slave codes?
Wrote the Albany Plan
Who was Benjamin Franklin
Religious revival that swept through the colonies
What was the Great Awakening?
First college in America
What is Harvard University?
Ran the New England schools
Who were single or widowed women?
Groups of civilians trained to fight in emergencies
What was the militia?
British commander who was sent to conquer the French in the Ohio River Valley
Who was General Edward Braddock
War between the French and British that started in 1756
What was the Seven Years War?
The Treaty of Paris marked the end of power in America for what group
Who were the French?
Controlled the majority of the land in North America after the French and Indian War
Who were Great Britain and Spain?
Type of farming practiced in the New England Colonies
What was subsistence farming?
Sent George Washington into the Ohio River Valley to push the French out
Who was Governor Robert Dinwiddie?
War in which Britain and the colonists where fighting both the French & Native Americans
What was the French and Indian War?
The region where there weremany plantations
What was the Tidewater?
A colony established by a group of settlers who were given a formal document allowing them to settle in an area
What was a charter colony?
A colony led by a governor who was appointed by the king or queen
What was a royal colony?
The leader who recognized that British settlers threatened the Native American's way of life
Who was chief Pontiac?
Stopped westward expansion past the Appalachian Mountains
What was the Proclamation of 1763
The main reason for economic success in the Southern colonies
What was slavery?
The trade route between the colonies, England, and western Africia
What was the Triangular Trade Route?
A colony led by individuals to whom the land was granted to them
What was a proprietary colony?
Powerful group of Native Americans in the East
Who were the Iroquois Confederacy?
Plan that called for all of the American colonies to unite
What was the Albany Plan of Union?
White men who owned land had the right to do what
What was to vote?
Ended the French and Indian War
What was the Treaty of Paris?