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Am History Ch 4
Colonies & French/Indian War
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History
8th Grade
12/18/2007

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Term

True or False

 

Settlers that landed in Jamestown, VA IN 1607 had difficulty growing crops because of thin, rocky soil

Definition
false
Term

True or False

 

Tobacco was the cash crop that saved Jamestown settlers

Definition
True
Term

True or False

 

Women and Africans in the colonies could usually vote, run businesses, and own property.

Definition
False
Term

True or False

 

The French and Indian war was mainly between France and Native Americans

Definition
False
Term

True or False

 

Use of enslaved workers increased in the West Indies and the colonies where hard labor required on large farms and plantations.

Definition
True
Term

True or False

 

The Navigation Acts allowed colonists to trade with a lot of different countries.

Definition
False
Term
What area of land in North America were the French and British competing over?
Definition
Ohio River Valley
Term
How did England view its North American colonies?
Definition

as an economic resource

Term
Who exemplified the Enlightenment?
Definition
Benjamin Franklin
Term
A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies is called what?
Definition
militia
Term
Who wrote the plan that sought to unite the American colonies against the French?
Definition
Benjamin Franklin
Term
The French and Indian War was mainly a war between who?
Definition
France and Britain
Term
What is a colony in which settlers had been granted rights and privileges?
Definition
Charter Colony
Term
What was the religious revivial that swept through the colonies called?
Definition
Great Awakening
Term

What were the products of the Triangular Trade?

Definition

Rum

 

Sugar/Molasses

 

Slaves

Term
What was known as the movement to spread knowledge, reason, and science to improve society?
Definition
The Enlightenment
Term
Which of the following regions had the most diverse and accepting population?
Definition
Middle Colony
Term

Labor for the Southern tobacco and rice plantations was mainly provided by who?

Definition
Enslaved Africans
Term
What is the name of an economic system where a colony provides resources to the mother country?
Definition
mercantilism
Term
What plan called for general government for all the American colonies?
Definition
Albany Plan of Union
Term

Who were allies in the French and Indian War?

Definition
Colonists, British, & Iroquois Confederacy
Term
The Treaty of Paris marked the end of power in North America for who?
Definition
France
Term
What document inspired the American Bill of Rights?
Definition
English Bill of Rights
Term
The leg of the Triangular Trade route in which enslaved Africans were shipped to the West Indies was known as what?
Definition
The Middle Passage
Term
Which American hero struck the 1st blow against the French?
Definition
George Washington
Term
What is subsistence farming?
Definition
producing enough food to eat, but not to sell
Term
What is Free Enterprise?
Definition
Freedom for a business to compete for profit with little government regulations.
Term
What ended the French and Indian War?
Definition
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Term
What is smuggling?
Definition
illegally trading with other countries
Term

England not enforcing the Navigation Acts which was beneficial to the colonists is called what?

Definition

Salutary Neglect

Term

Who were a powerful group of Native Americans?

Definition
Iroquois Confederacy
Term
What halted westward expansion passed the Appalachian Mountains?
Definition
Proclamation of 1763
Term

What did the Navigation Laws require?

Definition

It required colonies to trade with England.

Term

The English Bill of Rights guaranteed what?

Definition
Certain basic rights to all citizens.
Term
What are cash crops?
Definition
Crops that could be sold for a profit.
Term

The region of hills and forest climbing up to the Appalachian Mountains called?

Definition
Backcountry
Term
What is diversity?
Definition
Variety, different kinds
Term
What is tidewater?
Definition

A region of flat, low lying plains along the seacoast with many plantations.

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