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Chapters 3 and 4
review of terms and concepts from chapters 3 and 4
Term | Definition |
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Enlightenment | the movement that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society |
Proclamation of 1763 | forbade all settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains |
tobacco | cash crop that helped save Jamestown by making a profit for their investors |
pacifists | people who refuse to fight in wars |
proprietary colony | a colony in which the owner or a group of owners named the colony's governor |
white male property owners | only people allowed to vote in the colonies |
rice | main cash crop of South Carolina and Georgia |
Triangular Trade Route | trade route from Great Britain to West Africa to America and back to Great Britain |
Middle Passage | the inhumane part of the Triangular Trade that shipped enslaved Africans from West Africa to the Americas. |
Britain and France | were major powers in North America by 1700 |
Native Americans | often helped the French by raiding British settlements during the wars between France and Great Britain |
Benjamin Franklin | American that best exemplified the Enlightenment way of thinking |
subsistence farming | producing just enough to meet the need of the family with little left over to sell or exchange |
Great Awakening | a religious revival |
Treaty of Paris of 1763 | document that marked the end of France as a power in North America |
Fort Necessity | name of the small post that George Washington established in Ohio country |
House of Burgesses | Jamestown's legislative assembly |
Lord John Berkely | one of New Jersey's proprietors |
Plymouth | Pilgrim colony |
Thomas Hooker | founder of Hartford, Connecticut |
William Berkeley | Virginia's governor |
mercantilism | economic theory that the more you have the more powerful you become |
smuggling | trading illegally |
royal colonies | ruled by Britain |
Glorious Revolution | peaceful transfer of power in England |