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Why They Came
The Colonial Economy
The Triangular Trade
Slavery in the Colonies
The Colonial Way of Life
100
Many Europeans became__________ to pay the price of their passage to the colonies.
What is indentured servants.
100
It was the major way of life for the colonists in the early 1700s.
What is agriculture.
100
The three starting points of each leg of the triangular trade.
What is New York or Boston, Africa, and the West Indies.
100
The type of farms in the Southern Colonies that used the greatest number of slaves.
What is plantations.
100
A famous scientist, writer, and inventor born in 1706.
Who is Benjamin Franklin.
200
People who were forced to come to the colonies, from England, to provide free labor.
What is convicts.
200
Name given to the Middle Colonies because they grew so much wheat and corn.
What is the breadbasket of the colonies.
200
The goods carried on the first leg of the triangular trade route TO Africa.
What is rum and guns.
200
A person who supervised the work on the plantation.
What is an overseer.
200
A book written by Benjamin Franklin containing facts, sayings, and jokes.
What is Poor Richard's Almanack.
300
At least half of the people who came to the colonies in the 1700s came as this.
What is captives and indentured servants.
300
The three major cash crops grown and exported by the Southern Colonies.
What is tobacco, rice, and indigo.
300
The cargo on the second leg of the triangular trade, from Africa to the West Indies.
What is African men and women (slaves).
300
The reason slaves held secret meetings at night.
What is to plan escape.
300
Where colonists began moving in the mid 1700s because they couldn't afford land in the Coastal Plain.
What is the backcountry.
400
The business of buying and selling people for profit.
What is the slave trade.
400
The system in which people can start any business they want.
What is free enterprise.
400
The cargo that was picked up in the West Indies to take to New England.
What is molasses.
400
The thing that plantation owners feared most and caused them to strengthen the slave codes.
What is a slave rebellion.
400
What landform kept the colonists from moving farther west?
What is the Appalachian Mountains.
500
The three reasons most Europeans came to the colonies.
What is cheap land, greater opportunity to earn a living, and religious freedom.
500
Three major industries of the New England Colonies.
What is fishing, whaling and shipbuilding.
500
The ships took molasses to New England to be made into this.
What is rum.
500
Rules that stripped away from slaves many of the rights that most free people enjoyed, such as learning to read, marry, own property.
What is the slave codes.
500
The largest colonial city in 1775.
What is Philadelphia.