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What is subsistence farming?

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Producing enough crops to meet family needs.

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What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

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Farming

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What is commercial agriculture?

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When larger amounts of crops are produced to make profit.

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Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

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Because they had to spend most their time on shipbuilding and fishing.

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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 is the triangular trade?

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Sugar and molasses from WI to NE to make rum to go to West Africa then back to NE with salves.

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What were the main items traded in the Triangular Trade?

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Sugar molasses rum and slaves

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What was the name of the slave transporting leg of the Triangular Trade?

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The Middle Passage

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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 is a cash crop?

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Crops that can be sold easily for profit in markets.

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What were the two main cash crops of the Middle Colonies?

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Wheat and Oates

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Which colonial region was known for its diverse population of German and Scotch-Irish citizens?

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Middle colonies

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What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland?

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Tobacco

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What was the main cash crop in Georgia and South Carolina?

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Rice

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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 very labor intensive.

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What is supply and demand?

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Supply is how much of a product there is and demand is how much the public wants a product.

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What is the region of the Southern colonies where the plantations resided?

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Tidewater

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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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How did England view the colonies economically?

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As an economic resource.

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How do you make money on trade?

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Have more exports than imports.

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What were the Navigation Acts?

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To restrict trades and make sure that England still made money.

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What established a limited government in the 13
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century and inspired the US Constitution?

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Manga Carta

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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.

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What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies?

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The Great Awakening

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What was the Enlightenment?

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The belief that knowledge,science,and reason could improve society.

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What was the name of the book Benjamin Franklin wrote after being inspired by the Enlightenment?

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“Poor Richard’s Almanack”

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

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John Peter Zenger

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

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Ohio River Valley

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

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Iroquois

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Who was sent to tell the French to leave the Ohio River Valley and struck the first blow against the French?

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George Washington

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What is a militia?

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A group of citizens that are trained to fight in an emergency.

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What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

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To unite the colonies.

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

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“Join or Die”

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What was the name of the war between the French and British in Europe?

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“Seven Year War”

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What is the name of the fort that the Cherokee burned down in modern day Tennessee?

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Fort Loudoun

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Who oversaw the colonial war effort in London and was the cause of the British turnaround?

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William Pitt

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

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The battle of Quebec

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What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

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French had to give all the had they had taken to Great Britain except for West Indies

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

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Pontiac

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What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

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Halted Western Expansion by settlers west of the Appalachian Moutains.

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