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Life in the Colonies

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Suggested a plan of Union for 13 colonies; created and published one of the 1st American political cartoons-Join, or Die   Benjamin Franklin  
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Leader of the Great Awakening who traveled throughout the colonies giving "electrifying" speeches   ?????  
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Became famous for striking the 1st blow against the French   George Washington  
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Minister of the Great Awakening; famous for his sermons about an angry God   ?????  
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Experimented w/ electricity & invented bifocal glasses; greatest American of the Enlightenment   Ben Franklin  
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Survived the Middle Passage; forced into slavery in VA, eventually earned his freedom, and wrote his biography   Olaudah Equiano  
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Fishing and shipbuilding were important   New England  
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wheat was a major cash crop   Middle  
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triangular trade was important   New england  
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many nationalities lived here,were culturally diverse   Middle  
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local gvt meant town meetings   New England  
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had church-supported schools   Middle  
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major religion = Puritan   New England  
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farms or estates were large with indentured servants   Middle  
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slaves worked large plantations   Southern  
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rice, tobacco, and indigo were the cash crops   Southern  
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private tutors were hired to teach the children   Southern  
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soil was rocky and subsistence farming was typical   New England  
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1st public schools were built in this region   New England  
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major religion = Anglican   Southern  
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great religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s that called for a return to the strong faith of the past. it led to greater religious toleration, less emphasis on class differences, and more democratic ideas   Great Awakening  
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a plan to unite the 13 colonies under 1 central gvt that would tax the colonies, raise troops, and regulate trade; 1st proposal to unite the colonies   Albany Plan of Union  
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dreadful trip across Atlantic Ocean made by enslaved Africans under horrible conditions   Middle Passage  
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time period in which people believed that knowledge, logic and science could improve the world   Enlightenment  
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series of laws passed to put mercantilism into effect in order to better regulate colonial trade   Navigation Acts  
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area of N. America that the English and French both claimed   Ohio River Valley  
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