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Stack #4714465
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| subsistence farming | an agricultural system where farmers grow food and raise livestock solely to feed themselves and their families, leaving little to no surplus for sale or trade |
| cash crop | agricultural product grown specifically for sale and profit rather than for personal consumption by the farmer or their family |
| triangular trade | transatlantic economic system that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas |
| slave code | laws passed by colonial and state governments in the American colonies that defined enslaved people as property rather than persons |
| representative government | system where citizens elect officials to make laws and govern on their behalf instead of voting on laws directly |
| mercantilism | a nation's power depends on its wealth, which is measured by gold, silver, and maintaining a favorable balance of trade where exports exceed imports. |
| export | any good, service, or technology shipped or transported out of the United States to a foreign country |
| import | a good or service brought into one country from another for sale, use, or trade |
| epidemic | a sudden, unexpected increase in the number of disease cases in a specific community or region, well above what is normally expected |
| militia | a military force raised from the ordinary civilian population to provide local defense or support the regular army during emergencies |
| alliance | a formal agreement or treaty between the United States and one or more foreign nations for mutual defense, security, or strategic cooperation |
| new england colonies | northernmost settlements Massachusetts Bay colony, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire |
| middle colonies | New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. |
| southern colonies | five British colonies in North America—Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia—that relied heavily on plantation agriculture and enslaved labor |
| navigation acts | English laws designed to control colonial trade and restrict it exclusively to British ships and markets |
| great awakening | a series of intense religious revivals that swept through the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s as a reaction against formal, rationalist religion |
| Jonathan edwards | colonial Puritan minister who started the 1st great awakening |
| George Whitefiled | English Anglican minister who became the most famous and dynamic leader of the First Great Awakening |
| Englightenment | intellectual movement that emphasized human reason, science, and individual rights over blind faith, tradition, and absolute monarchy |
| John Peter Zenger | colonial printer and journalist whose 1735 trial for seditious libel became a foundational precedent for freedom of the press in America |
| Fort Duquesne | French military post in present day Pittsburgh PA on the Allegheny river |
| George Washington | Founding Father, the commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States |
| Fort Necessity | built by George Washington in Pennsylvania, was the site of the 1st battle of French and Indian war |
| Iroquois Confederacy | powerful political and cultural alliance of Native American tribes in northeastern North America |
| Ben Franklin | (1706–1790) was an American Founding Father, inventor, scientist, printer, and diplomat |
| French and Indian War | major 9-year conflict from 1754 to 1763 where Great Britain and France fought for control of North America |
| William Pitt | British political leader who was prime minister and ran the British government during the French and Indian(7 years) war |
| Quebec | British province established in 1763 and helped start the American revolution because it expanded territory American colonies thought belonged to them |
| Treaty of Paris | officially ended the American Revolutionary War and recognized the United States as an independent nation |
| Pontiac's war | officially ended the American Revolutionary War and recognized the United States as an independent nation |
| Proclamation of 1763 | banned American colonists from settling on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains |
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