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The Colonies Grow
U. S. History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Subsistence Farming | Farmers produced just enough to meet their needs |
| Triangular Trade | colonial ships traveled routes that formed a triangle between Europe, Africa and North America |
| Cash Crop | crops that could be sold easily in markets |
| Diversity | variety in culture |
| Tidewater | area in the Southern region of flat, lowling plains along the seacoast |
| Middle Pasage | inhumane part of the triangular trade shipping enslaved Africans to the West Indies |
| Overseer | bosses on large plantations who kept slaves working |
| slave codes | strict rules governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans |
| Glorious Revolution | Parliment forced the king out of power and the elected representives had more power |
| English Bill of Rights | William and Mary signed this in 1689 guaranteeing certain basic rights to all citizens |
| export | sell abroad |
| imported | bought from foreign markets |
| mercantilism | economic theory that states that as a state's or nation's power depended on its wealth |
| Navigation Acts | series of laws between 1651 and 1673 that directed the flow of goods between England and the colonies |
| smuggling | trading illegally |
| Great Awakening | religious revival that swept through the colonies between 1720's and 1740's |
| literacy | ability to read and write |
| Enlightenment | movement that began in the middle 1700's which spread the idea that knowledge, reason and science could improve society |
| Benjamin Franklin | best known American scientist during the Enlightment, invented lightning rod, biofocal eyeglasses and the Franklin stove |
| Iroquois Confederacy | powerful group of Native Americans in the East that gave more trading rights to the British over the French |
| George Washington | leader of the militia during the French and Indian War, established Fort Necessity |
| Albany Plan of Union | proposed by Benjamin Franklin and called for one elected legislature to govern the colonies |
| alliances | unions |
| General Edward Braddock | commander in chief of the British forces in 1754 who was sent to drive the French from the Ohio valley |
| William Pitt | prime minister of Britain during the French and Indian War |
| Battle of Quebec | major battle in the French and Indian War in which the British won |
| Treaty of Paris of 1763 | marked the end of France as a power in North America |
| Pontiac's War | series of raids by Native Americans in 1763 - 1765 led by Pontiac who tried to join all of the Native Americans together |
| speculators | investors |
| Proclamation of 1763 | King George III declared that the Appalachian Mountains were the temporary western boundary for the colonies |
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