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