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This was the name that sailors gave to the trip between Africa and the Americans.
What is the Middle Passage?
100
This is the biggest reason for the large increase of population of North America from the 1680's to the 1770's.
What is immigration?
100
This economic theory says that a nation can increase its wealth by having colonies to get raw materials from and to use as markets for finished products.
What is mercantilism?
100
This is the name of the bloodless changing of the monarch in England in 1689 where King James II was replaced with his daughter Mary and her husband William.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
100
Plantation life was most difficult for these slaves, who had to work in the fields all day and then take care of their house duties at night.
Who are female slaves?
200
This was the name of the armed resistance where slaves went from settlement to settlement killing white people in an attempt to head to Florida to gain freedom.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
200
North American population exploded in part to this "rate" that increased greatly.
What is birthrate?
200
Starting in the 1660's, England enacted these laws to enforce its pro-British/anti-colonies economic system. These laws greatly increased England's economic prosperity but fostered mistrust of the English government in the colonies.
What are the Navigation Acts?
200
One of the reasons that King James II was removed from the British throne is because he was a member of this sect of Christianity.
What is Catholicism?
200
Two of the "jobs" that slaves in the Northern colonies are likely to do?
What are domestic servant, artisan/craftsman, dock worker, shipping industry, general laborer?
300
Most slaves in the South worked on these large agricultural plots harvesting cash crops such as tobacco, rice, indigo, and cotton.
What are plantations?
300
These people were fleeing the war and religious oppression of the falling Holy Roman Empire in Europe.
Who are German-speaking peoples?
300
These types of goods from the American colonies were allowed to ONLY be shipped to England under the English economic policy starting in the 1660's.
What are raw materials?
300
These colonies were merged together by William and Mary to create the royal colony of Massachusetts.
What are Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth?
300
After the Glorious Revolution, England used this type of management style to "rule" the colonies?
What is "hands-off" (laid-back, etc)?
400
The 1662 law in Virginia that said slavery was passed from mother to child is an example of these, which became worse and worse as time went on.
What are slave codes?
400
This group of people are best known for their anti-authority attitudes and they mainly settled on the frontier areas of British North America.
Who are the Scots-Irish?
400
Due to the increased economy of England in the 1660's, indentured servants from England were tough to get in the colonies, which caused this institution to increase in use and worsen in practice.
What is African slavery?
400
This document said that British monarchs could not subvert the acts of Parliament without its consent; American colonists thought that it also referred to their colonial assemblies as well.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
400
The population of the British North American colonies went up from 1680-1770 because this went down.
What is mortality rate?
500
Examples of this type behavior are breaking tools, burning crops, and pretending to be ill.
What is non-violent resistance?
500
These were free, non-English Europeans who became semi-citizens in British North America in the late 1600's through the 1700's.
Who are denizens?
500
In response to the colonies' smuggling, England created this political entity in the American colonies, made up of the colonies of New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Plymouth Colony.
What is the Dominion of New England?
500
Because their salaries were paid by colonial assemblies through the raising of taxes, these people often did not enforce laws that were unpopular among the colonists.
Who are royal governors?
500
The Scots-Irish people were from this region of Ireland.
What is Ulster (modern-day Northern Ireland)?