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US History Chapter 4 Review

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subsistence farming   Producing just enough to meet the families' needs, with little left over to sell or exchange?  
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Middle Passage   The most inhumane aspect of the triangular trade  
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overseers   The plantation bosses who kept the enslaved Africans working hard were called  
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plantation owners   Which group controlled the economic and political life of the Southern Colonies?  
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shipbuilding   important New England industry  
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slave codes   governed enslaved people  
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diversity   cultural variety  
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cash crops   crops that sold easily  
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mercantilism   economic theory  
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trading illegally   smuggling  
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Glorious Revolution   peaceful transfer of power in England  
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immigration   Main reason for population growth in the colonies  
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train ministers   the reason the first colleges were set up in the colonies  
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vote   One thing that no women could legally do in the colonies.  
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the Great Awakening   This was a religious revival  
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Zenger’s libel case   This case was an important step toward the idea of freedom of the press.  
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civic virtue   democratic ideas, practices, and values.  
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Fort Necessity   The small post that George Washington established in Ohio country  
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British and French   the major powers in North America by 1700  
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raiding British settlements   Native Americans often helped the French during the war between France and Britain by doing this.  
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William Pitt   The British prime minister who drove the French out of America  
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The Treaty of Paris   This document marked the end of France as a power in North America  
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import   to bring in from foreign markets  
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epidemic   illness that affects a large number of people  
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apprentice   a person who works for another in order to learn a trade  
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militia   a military force made up of ordinary citizens  
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Navigation Acts   This act directed the flow of goods between the colonies and England  
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Ohio River Valley   Washington's first command was here  
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The Proclamation of 1763   This called for a halt to westward expansion  
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diversity   The Middle Colonies attracted many Scotch-Irish, German, Dutch, and Swedish settlers. They gave the Middle Colonies a cultural ________________________, or variety, not found in New England.  
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Magna Carta   The protection of people's rights was a central idea in the English system of government. It first appeared in the ____________, or Great Charter, which King John signed on June 15, 1215.  
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immigration   the permanent moving of people into one country from other countries  
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The Enlightenment   This increased interest in science, promoted freedom of thought and expression, a belief in equality, and the idea of popular government.  
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Benjamin Franklin   He was a shining example of civic virtue and the Enlightenment at its best.  
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Treaty of Paris   The treaty that ended the French and Indian War in Europe.  
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home   place where most children in colonial America learned to read and write  
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Tidewater   area in which most of the large Southern plantations were located  
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back country   area near the Appalachian Mountains  
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royal colonies   These types of colonies were ruled by Great Britain  
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proprietary colonies   These types of colonies were ruled by a owner who did as they pleased  
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Iroquois Confederacy   The Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Tuscarora made up this powerful group.  
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Albany Plan of Union   Because of lack of colonist support this plan of unity suggested by Benjamin Franklin failed  
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raise taxes   Pitt's plan in regard of how to deal with the cost of the French and Indian War was to eventually do this to the colonists  
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Navigation Acts   Colonial merchants could not use foreign ship to export after the passage of these acts  
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manufacture goods   The colonists resisted the Navigation Acts they wanted to do this  
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Industrial economy   This was the main reason slavery wasn't well established in the North.  
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agricultural   Which term best describes the Southern economy before the Civil War?  
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French   This European colonial group treated Native Americans with more respect.  
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expel the French   Reason George Washington was sent to western Pennsylvania.  
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naval blockade   This helped the British defeat the French by cutting off supplies and reinforcements.  
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