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Wray Chapter 4
Flashcards inmportant info Chapter 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The main aim of Britain using the economic policy of Mercantilism is by gaining wealth and power by collecting | Gold and silver |
| Farming where you only farm just enough for you and your family | Subsistence farming |
| A crop that can be sold easily in markets | Cash Crop |
| New England's economy was known most for | Small businesses and crafts |
| What was the major cash crop for the Middle Colonies? | Wheat |
| What area was most known for slave labor? | The Southern Colonies |
| What two crops brought about the need for slave labor? | Tobacco and Rice |
| What area was known for plantations and cash crops? | The Southern Colonies? |
| What area was known for having a diverse culture? | The Middle Colonies |
| What group of people first enslaved Africans? | West African Kingdoms |
| Three pronged trade route | Triangular Trade |
| What three areas were part of Triangular Trade? | Americas, Britain, West Africa |
| Rule governing the behavior and punishment of slaves | Slave Codes |
| Two principles of English government | Representative Government and Protected Rights |
| government in which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government | representative government |
| law that did not allow the ruler to impose taxes, raise an army, or suspend parliament rules. | English Bill of Rights |
| Colony that was the property of an owner or group of owners | Proprietary Colony |
| Colony under direct English control | Royal Colony |
| to sell goods to another country | export |
| to buy goods from another country | import |
| Set of laws that restricted colonial trade in order to make money for England | Navigation Acts |
| Document that gave English people protection against unjust treatment or punishment, and even made kings and queens bound by law. | Magna Carta |
| the permanent movement of people into one country from other nations | immigration |
| an illness that affects large numbers of people | epidemic |
| the illness that caused the most epidemics in colonial times | smallpox |
| a young person who learns a trade from a skilled craftsperson | apprentice |
| A religious revival in the 18th century that emphasized personal faith over church rituals. | The Great Awakening |
| A age of though in the 18th century that focused on education, reason, though, logic, and science. | The Enlightenment |
| the democratic ideas, practices, and values that are at the heart of citizenship in a free society. | civic virtues |
| newspaper journalist who was thrown in jail for writing an article saying the governor was corrupt | Peter Zenger |
| a military force of ordinary citizens | militia |
| Group of several Indian tribes that the British tried to ally with | Iroquois Confederacy |
| The side that the Iroquois Confederacy sided with in the French and Indian War | Neither |
| leader of the Virginia militia that attack Fort Duquesne | George Washington |
| What was the difference between the British and French's interest in the Ohio River Valley? | The French was interested in fur trading the British were interested in owning the land. |
| British Prime Minister who was also a great Military planner. He turned the war in favor of the British | William Pitt |
| The Treaty that marked the end of the French and Indian War | Treaty of Paris |
| Indian Chief that attacked colonial Villages because the British unlike the French would not pay the Indians to use their land and had raised prices on goods | Pontiac |
| What are two results of the French and Indian War | Proclamation of 1763 Britain was in Great Debt. |
| What did Britain see as a solution to their debt problem? | taxing the colonist |
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