Mid-Term🌽 Flashcards
4 things about slavery
Slave part of triangle trade Most worked on plantations Sold at auctions Middle passage Some Indians No rights Led to more prejudice
Mercantilism
Parent country benefited the parent country, used by all European countries, colonies provide Raw materials , colonies by finished goods
New England colonies
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Middle colonies
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Southern Colonies
Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia
New England Characteristics
Economy Based on Sea, whaling,ship building
Religious freedom
Public Schools
Few slaves towns
Middle Characteristics
Breadbasket-wheat,oats, and barley
Quakers
Private/religious schools
Some slaves. Towns and countries
Southern Characteristics
Plantations-indigo,tobacco
Imitate England
Tutors
Many Slaves country’s
Backcountry
Self sufficient Men and woman were = Educated at home Lived in log cabins Valued loyalty to family Appelation Mts
What were the causes of the French and Indian war
Ohio River Valley Power Fur Trade Wealth Previous wars/ conflicts
What were the results of the French and Indian war
England won - gets land east of Mississippi River, has large debt
treaty of Paris 1763
France only one half island in Caribbean
Spain lost Florida, Spain gets land west of the Mississippi River
How did the British attempt to resolve his problems with the Indians west of appellation Mountains following the French and Indian war
Parliament passed the proclamation of 1763/colonists not allowed to settle west of the appellation Mountains after this war and Pontiac’s Rebellion
Hiawatha
Helped form the Iroquois Confederacy
William Penn
FoundedPennsylvania for freedom/rights, Quaker, honest, fair to Indians
Squanto
Taught pilgrims how to farm (corn), where to fish
Peter Zanger
Arrested for printing truth about NY governor, trial set up Free Press
Albany plan of union
Ben Franklin plan for colonies to unite before French and Indian war
Iroquois’s confederacy
Formed by SCOOM, only fight other tribes
House of burgesses
Virginia Colonal assembly made laws for colony
Mayflower Compact
Pilgrims crate self govern as charter was avoid
Parliament
Lawmaking body for England and its empire
Town meetings
New England colonists made some local laws/discussions
Archaeology
Scientific study of the past
Anthropology
Study of people, past and present
Canal
Man-made waterway connecting to larger bodies of water example Erie Canal
Domestication
To make plants and animals more usable for people
Economy
How resources are used to earn a living
Mouth/delta
The place where a river flows into a lake or ocean
Peninsula
Why is shattered by water on three sides example Florida
Primary source
Information from someone or something that was there
Secondary source
Information from someone or something that was not there
Religious tolerance
The willingness to except others with different beliefs than your own
Strait
A natural smaller body of water that connects to larger bodies of water
Associated
Connected to
Downfall
Decline, lose power or importance
Establish
To set up, create
Impact
Influence, effect
Oppose
Against, disagree
Prosperous
Make money, to become better
