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What was the main economy of the New England Colonies?

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Fishing, whaling, shipbuilding, and trade

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What is the term for crops grown for export or sale?

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Cash crops

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What is the term for crops, especially grains, that are always in demand - they were grown in the Middle Colonies?

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Staple crops

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What is the term for crops grown for consumption by the family, rather than for sale?

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Subsistence crops

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What do we call products that are shipped to other countries?

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Exports

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This crop saved Jamestown from disaster and became the main crop in Virginia and North Carolina

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Tobacco

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This hard to grow crop was grown in South Carolina and Georgia and, with tobacco, led to an increase in slavery

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Rice

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The French and the British fought this war for control of North America. Although they were victorious, the war nearly bankrupted the British.

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The French and Indian War

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This set of laws regulated trade between Britain and the American colonies

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The Navigation Acts

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What is the name for the law making body of a country?

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The legislature
(or the
legislative branch
of government)

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What is the name of the legislature of Great Britain?

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Parliament

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What land did the British and French fight the French and Indian War to gain control of ?

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The Ohio River Valley/ the French territory west of the Appalachian Mountains

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What is the name of the treaty that ended the French and Indian War?

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The Treaty of Paris (1763)

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What land did France lose to Britain as a result of the French and Indian War?

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All the land east of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River became the new border of British territory in North America.

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What is the main reason that Britain believed it needed to tax its American colonies?

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The British wanted the colonies to help to pay for the debts it had from the French and Indian War

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These laws controlled what products could be imported into America, and to whom Americans could sell their raw materials.

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The Navigation Acts

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This economic system stated that political power comes from having a favorable balance of trade

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Mercantilism

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What are the two functions that colonies serve in the mercantile system?

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Colonies serve as:
sources of raw materials and
as markets for finished goods.

19
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These Acts actually helped the colonists by providing jobs as ship builders and sailors and by guaranteeing colonists that the British would buy certain goods.

A

The Navigation Acts

20
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This unpopular and widely ignored British law prohibited colonists from settling land west of the Appalachian Mountains

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The Proclamation of 1763

21
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What is the name for the ocean voyage of Africans kidnapped into slavery?

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The Middle Passage

22
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What do we call a large southern farm that usually employed slave labor?

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A plantation

23
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What is the term for a political system in which the King has total power - he is the law, and not subject to the law?

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Absolute monarchy

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What term expresses the political idea that the law is supreme - even the King is must obey the law?

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Limited monarchy

25
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What is the form of government in which the people elect citizens to make the laws?

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Representative democracy

also called representative government

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What term means a form of government in which any white, male colonists could raise issues, propose laws, and vote directly?

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Self-government –

the New England town meetings were a form of self-government

27
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Identify the event in English history that established Parliament’s supremacy in lawmaking, and that the King is subject to the law

A

The Glorious Revolution

28
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King James signed this document promising that he would not levy taxes without the consent of the people

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The Magna Carta

29
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What is the term for products brought into a country to be sold?

A

Imports

30
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What is the term for sneaking goods into a country in order to avoid paying import taxes?

A

Smuggling

31
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What is the term for a law making body in the colonies – its elected representatives made local laws for their colony? (Hint: Virginia’s House of Burgesses was the first in the colonies.)

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A colonial assembly

32
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The gathering of men in New England communities to discuss and vote on decisions for the community – an example of self-government

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New England town meeting

33
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What term means having a variety of different cultures within a community or country?

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Cultural diversity

also, multiculturalism

34
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What is the term for being treated poorly or having fewer rights because of your religion?

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Religious persecution

35
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What is the name of the religious revival that emphasized that all people could be saved?

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The Great Awakening

36
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This was one part of the Enlightenment. It was a revival of interest in science and emphasized the belief that human beings could discover how the physical world operates through reason, observation and experimentation

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The Scientific Revolution

37
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This part of the Enlightenment emphasized that human beings could discover natural laws of how society and government should be constructed

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The Age of Reason

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What is the term for rights that human beings have simply because they are humans - they do NOT come from the government?

A

Natural Rights

39
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According to Enlightenment philosopher John Locke, what are man’s natural rights?

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Equality

Life, liberty, and property

40
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What is the term for basic rights, like the right to vote, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to trial by jury?

A

Civil liberties

41
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What is the term for a loose alliance, where the individual members keep most of the power to themselves, rather than giving it to a central authority or government?

(Hint: The Iroquois formed one of these.)

A

A confederation

42
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Who were the Cayuga, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Mohawk, and Tuscarora Indians?

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The Iroquois Confederacy

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