Colonial Founding
This was considered almost as valuable as Gold
What is Sugar
the 3 main reasons European countries colonized the Americas, often called the “3 G’s”?
What is God, Gold, Glory
By 1750, The population of the 13 colonies was
What is 1.5 Million
This was used to transport hundreds, thousands of Africans into slavery.
What is the Middle Passage
This war cause Great Britain to have an enormous National Debt
This Region is considered the breadbasket of the colonies
What is the Middle Colonies (region)
The purpose of the Navigation Acts passed by Britain beginning in 1651
What is "To regulate colonial trade to benefit England"
They made up the bottom of the colonial social hierarchy?
What is Indentured Servants
This was allowed if an enslaved person resisted capture while hiding or “lurking” away from their master’s service.
What is killing the enslaved person
Britain decided to do this to manage their National Debt after the Seven Years War
What is Taxing the American Colonist
This region had 3 lucrative crops which were Tobacco, Cotton, & Rice
What is the Southern Colonies (Region)
The name of the system of trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas that exchanged goods, enslaved people, and raw materials?
What is the Triangle Trade
According to William Byrd’s diary and Richard Frethorne’s letters, The Life of an Indentured Servant was like
What is Harsh conditions, many did not survive, and life was short with disease and hardship
For “security reasons,” this law made it illegal for enslaved people to carry weapons like guns, swords, or clubs.
What is the Virginia Slave Code of 1669/1670s?
King George III sent his Army to the Colonies for.
What is to Protect them
What is the New England Colonies (Region)
England looked at their colonies as their what
What is a Cash Cow
These were major causes of Bacon’s Rebellion
Lack of protection from Native attacks, corruption in government, increased taxes, or economic pressures.
Enslaved people sometimes resisted by refusing to eat or by committing this act, often seen as reclaiming agency in the face of unbearable suffering.
What is suicide (or jumping overboard)?
Sugar and another item is used to make the Colonies main export Rum
What is Molasses.
What is Geographic Determinism.
Negative Effects that Mercantilism affected colonial merchants
What is limited economic freedom, couldn’t trade freely with other nations, and paid higher prices due to England acting as a middleman?
The Bacon’s militia did this to Jamestown in September 1676
What is captured it and burned it to the ground
In 1781, this British slave ship infamously threw more than 130 enslaved people overboard, claiming it was necessary due to lack of water and disease onboard
What is the Zong?
They taxed every piece of printed paper that was being used. This included Playing cards, dice, & newspapers
What is the Stamp Act.