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Chapter 4
Life in the Colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| subsistence farming | type of farming practiced in New England |
| rice | most profitable cash crop in South Carolina |
| economic resource | this is how England viewed the North American colonies |
| militia | a group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies |
| Seven Years' War | a war between France and Britain |
| Great Awakening | a religious revival that swept through the colonies |
| New England | the hub of the shipping trade in North America |
| enslaved Africans | labor for the Southern rice fields |
| backcountry | area in the Southern colonies that consisted of small fields on hilly terrain |
| mercantilism | theory that holds that a nation's power depended on expanding its trade and wealth |
| Albany Plan of Union | plan that called for one general government for all the American colonies |
| Treaty of Paris | marked the end of France's power in North America |
| Middle Passage | the leg of the triangular trade route in which enslaved Africans were shipped to the West Indies |
| Pontiac | Native American chief that declared war on the English because he felt the British settlers threatened the Native American way of life |
| shipbuilding | important manufacturing development in colonial America primarily in New England |
| fur trapping | important trade development in colonial America |
| Navigation Acts | a group of acts that restricted trade, manufacturing, and shipping in the colonies |
| Magna Carta | document signed by England's King John that limited the power of the government |
| slave codes | strict rules governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans |
| overseers | hired by the plantation owner to make sure slaves were working hard |
| diversity | variety of cultural groups in the colonies |
| export | to sell abroad |
| import | to buy from a foreign country |
| smuggling | to trade illegally |
| charter colonies | colonies established by settlers who had been given a charter |
| royal colonies | colonies directly controlled by a governor and council appointed by the King |
| proprietary colonies | colonies ruled by proprietors |
| Enlightenment | a movement that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society |
| Iroquois Confederacy | powerful group of Native Americans |
| Fort Necessity | small post established by George Washington in the Ohio river valley to try and keep the French off British claimed territory. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | King George III declared that the Appalachian Mountains were the temporary western boundary for the colonies |
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