Growth Of 13 Colonies Flashcards

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Triangular Trade

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Roots followed by colonial merchants ships

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Substance Farming

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They generally produced just enough to meet the needs of their family with a little left over

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Tidewater

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A region of flat, low-lying plains along the seacoast

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Middle Passage

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The pat of the triangular trade when enslaved Africans were shipped to the West Indies.

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Olaudah Equiano

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A young African who was forced onto a ship to America. He later described his journey

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Cash Crops

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Farm crop raided to be sold for money

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What were the most important cash crops of the South

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Tobacco and Rice

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Principal

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Most important

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Surplus

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Extra amounts

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Backcountry

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A region of hills and forests west of the tidewater

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Overseers

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Bosses

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Slave code

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Strict rules that governed the behavior and punishment of the enslaved Africans and help define the relationship between enslaved people and free people

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Successor

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Next King

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Export

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Sell abroad

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Import

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Bought from foreign markets

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Glorious revolution

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Period of political change in England

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Navigation Acts

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Directed the trade between England and the colonies (they could only sell stuff to England not other places)

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Charter Colonies

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A colony established by a group of settlers who had been given a formal document allowing them to settle

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Proprietary Colony

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Run by individuals or groups to whom land was granted

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Royal Colony

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Colony run by a governor and a council appointed by the King or Queen

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Great Awakening

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A new rebirth

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What were family roles (men, women,sons, daughters)

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  • 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
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Converted

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Changed the religious beliefs of

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Iroquois Confederacy

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The most powerful group of Native Americans

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George Washington

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He was the surveyor who discovered a French fort in the Ohio River Valley

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Militia

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A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies

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Albany Plan of Union

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United colonial government

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Alliances

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Union between two or more people

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General Edward Braddock

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Commander in chief of the British forces in America

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Seven Years’ War

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A war that took place in Europe between Britain and France during the French and Indian war

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William Pitt

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Britain’s Prime Minister during the war

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Jeffrey Amherst

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British commanders

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Treaty of Paris

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Forced France to give Canada most of its land Britain the land east of the Mississippi and Spain the land west of the Mississippi

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James Wolfe

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British commander

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Pontiac’s War

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When Pontiac United the Native Americans to fight the British

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Proclamation of 1763

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Set the Appalachian Mountains as temporary boundaries for the colonies

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Speculators

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Investors

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Why did Ben Franklin’s Albany plan of union fail

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No colonies wanted to give up their power

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Who participated in the French and Indian war?

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The French, did Americans, and the British