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Ch.3 Life in Colonie
Life in the Colonies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Suggested a plan of Union for 13 colonies; created and published one of the 1st American political cartoons-Join, or Die | Benjamin Franklin |
| Leader of the Great Awakening who traveled throughout the colonies giving "electrifying" speeches | ????? |
| Became famous for striking the 1st blow against the French | George Washington |
| Minister of the Great Awakening; famous for his sermons about an angry God | ????? |
| Experimented w/ electricity & invented bifocal glasses; greatest American of the Enlightenment | Ben Franklin |
| Survived the Middle Passage; forced into slavery in VA, eventually earned his freedom, and wrote his biography | Olaudah Equiano |
| Fishing and shipbuilding were important | New England |
| wheat was a major cash crop | Middle |
| triangular trade was important | New england |
| many nationalities lived here,were culturally diverse | Middle |
| local gvt meant town meetings | New England |
| had church-supported schools | Middle |
| major religion = Puritan | New England |
| farms or estates were large with indentured servants | Middle |
| slaves worked large plantations | Southern |
| rice, tobacco, and indigo were the cash crops | Southern |
| private tutors were hired to teach the children | Southern |
| soil was rocky and subsistence farming was typical | New England |
| 1st public schools were built in this region | New England |
| major religion = Anglican | Southern |
| great religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s that called for a return to the strong faith of the past. it led to greater religious toleration, less emphasis on class differences, and more democratic ideas | Great Awakening |
| a plan to unite the 13 colonies under 1 central gvt that would tax the colonies, raise troops, and regulate trade; 1st proposal to unite the colonies | Albany Plan of Union |
| dreadful trip across Atlantic Ocean made by enslaved Africans under horrible conditions | Middle Passage |
| time period in which people believed that knowledge, logic and science could improve the world | Enlightenment |
| series of laws passed to put mercantilism into effect in order to better regulate colonial trade | Navigation Acts |
| area of N. America that the English and French both claimed | Ohio River Valley |
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