13 Colonies
What region is Maine in?
New England
A system of trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas where European manufactured goods were traded for enslaved Africans in Africa.
Triangular Trade
What do you notice about the placement of the 13 colonies and American Indian Groups?
The Colonists claimed Native American land for themselves.
What was the main purpose of building Fort Duquesne and Fort Necessity?
To claim the land for themselves
What region is New York in?
Middle
Which crops were key cash crops grown in the southern colonies that caused planters to want more enslaved Africans? List 2
cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo
What advantages did the American Colonists have over the Native Americans?
Weapons
How did the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution?
The British made the colonists pay their war debt.
What region is Pennsylvania in?
Middle
What types of jobs did enslaved Americans have in the northern colonies?
Worked in trades, worked in houses, some small farms
Who wanted to own land for themselves?
Colonists
Why did the Native Americans fight with the French?
They hoped that their land would be returned to them if they fought and won with the French.
What region is North Carolina in?
Southern
(True or False) There were more slaves in the south.
True
Colonists wanted Native Americans to become ___________ .
Christians
How did the Great Awakening change colonists’ views about the church?
It encouraged a more personal faith.
What region is Rhode Island in?
New England
What type of farms did slaves work on in the south?
Plantations
(True or False) Native Americans wanted to rule the Colonists
False
An economic idea which suggests that
governments should limit imports but increase manufacturing and exports.
Mercantalism