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1
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What is subsistance farming

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Producing enough to make the needs of the family

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Why did England farmers practice subsistance farming

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They were smaller than those in the South because of long winters and thin, rocky soil

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3
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What was the main economic activity in all the colonies

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Farming

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4
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What is triangler trade

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Was a system in which slaves, crops, and manufactured goods

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5
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What is commercial agriculture

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Larger amounts of crops are produced to make a profit

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6
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Where was the hub of the shipping trade in America

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New England

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What were the two main industries of the New England colonies

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Shipbuilding and fishing

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What were the two main cash crops of the Middle Colonies

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Wheat and Oats

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9
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What was the name of the slave transporting lag of the Triangler Trade

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Middle Passage

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10
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What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland

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Tobacco

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What is a cash crop

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A crop that can sold

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12
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What did rice and tobacco have in common ( why slaves were used to harvest them)

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They were both intensive labor crops

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13
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Which colonial region was known for its diverse populationof the German and Scotch-Irish citizens

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Middle Colonies

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What were the strict rules governing the behavior and punishment of slaves in the colonies

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Slave Codes

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What was the main cash crop in Georgia and South Carolina

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Rice

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How do you make money on trade

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You must export more than you import

17
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What is supply and demand

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It controls the prices of the crops

18
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What established a limited government in the 13th century and inspired the U.S. Constituion

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The Magna Carta

19
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How did New England view the colonies economically

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Economic resource

20
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What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies

A

The Great Awakening

21
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What was important about the Navigation Acts

A

It ensured that England made money off of trade

22
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What was the Enlightment

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Belief that knowledge, science, and reason could improve society

23
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Who was the newspaper publisher that was charged with a crime for accusingthe governor of New York of being a corrupt

A

John Peter Zenger

24
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Who was allowed to vote in the mid 1700’s in the colonies

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White men who owned property, but not all free men

25
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Where is the land area that the British and the French fought over because of the fur trade

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Ohio River Valley

26
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What was the name of the book Benjamin Franklin wrote after being inspired by the Enlightment

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Poor Richards Alminack

27
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Who was sent to tell the French to leave the Ohio River Valleyand struck the first blow against the French

A

George Washington

28
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The John Peter Zenger Trial dealt with what personal liberty

A

Freedom of the press

29
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What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do

A

Help the colonies defend themselves from the French

30
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What was the most powerful group of Native Americans in the East

A

Iroquis Confederacy

31
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What was the name of the war beween the French and the British in Europe

A

The Seven Years Wars

32
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What is a militia

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A group of citizens trained to fight in emergicies

33
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What was the most important victory for the British in the F&I War

A

Would take place in the British Quebec

34
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What was the name of the political cartoon that encouraged the colonies to approve the Albany Plan of Union

A

Join or Die

35
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Who was the Ottawa chief who believed the British were threatening their way of life

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Pontiac

36
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What was the name of the fort that the Cherokee burned down in modern day Tennessee

A

Fort Loundoun

37
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Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763

A

They had already bought land

38
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What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do

A

It ended the French and Indian War

39
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What did the Proclamation of 1763 do

A

It halted western expansion by the settlers west of the Appalachian Mountains

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