Growth Of 13 Colonies Flashcards
Triangular Trade
Roots followed by colonial merchants ships
Substance Farming
They generally produced just enough to meet the needs of their family with a little left over
Tidewater
A region of flat, low-lying plains along the seacoast
Middle Passage
The pat of the triangular trade when enslaved Africans were shipped to the West Indies.
Olaudah Equiano
A young African who was forced onto a ship to America. He later described his journey
Cash Crops
Farm crop raided to be sold for money
What were the most important cash crops of the South
Tobacco and Rice
Principal
Most important
Surplus
Extra amounts
Backcountry
A region of hills and forests west of the tidewater
Overseers
Bosses
Slave code
Strict rules that governed the behavior and punishment of the enslaved Africans and help define the relationship between enslaved people and free people
Successor
Next King
Export
Sell abroad
Import
Bought from foreign markets
Glorious revolution
Period of political change in England
Navigation Acts
Directed the trade between England and the colonies (they could only sell stuff to England not other places)
Charter Colonies
A colony established by a group of settlers who had been given a formal document allowing them to settle
Proprietary Colony
Run by individuals or groups to whom land was granted
Royal Colony
Colony run by a governor and a council appointed by the King or Queen
Great Awakening
A new rebirth
What were family roles (men, women,sons, daughters)
- Men were the heads of the houses
- sons could worked as indentured servants for local farms
- women ran the households and cared for the children
- widows or unmarried women would be school teachers, maids or cooks for the wealthy, nurses, or seamstresses
- daughters helped cook and learned household roles
Converted
Changed the religious beliefs of
Iroquois Confederacy
The most powerful group of Native Americans
George Washington
He was the surveyor who discovered a French fort in the Ohio River Valley
Militia
A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies
Albany Plan of Union
United colonial government
Alliances
Union between two or more people
General Edward Braddock
Commander in chief of the British forces in America
Seven Years’ War
A war that took place in Europe between Britain and France during the French and Indian war
William Pitt
Britain’s Prime Minister during the war
Jeffrey Amherst
British commanders
Treaty of Paris
Forced France to give Canada most of its land Britain the land east of the Mississippi and Spain the land west of the Mississippi
James Wolfe
British commander
Pontiac’s War
When Pontiac United the Native Americans to fight the British
Proclamation of 1763
Set the Appalachian Mountains as temporary boundaries for the colonies
Speculators
Investors
Why did Ben Franklin’s Albany plan of union fail
No colonies wanted to give up their power
Who participated in the French and Indian war?
The French, did Americans, and the British
