pickawillany
British fort
louisbourg
french fortress
iroquois confederacy
powerful group of native americans
militia
civilian soldiers
ben franklin
author of albany plan of union
fort necessity
this was a small post in the ohio valley established by george washinton
bristish and french
by the 1700 the major powers in north america were the
raiding british settlements
during the wars between france and great britain, native americans often
ohio river valley
george washington first command was in the
george washington
the colonists regarded this man as a hero who struck the first blow against
mercantilism
economic theory
smuggling
trading illegally
congregationalists
puritans
great awakening
religious revival
apprentice
learning assistant to craft worker
navigation acts
these laws direct the flow of goods between england and the colonies
compact colony
this is not a type of american colony
white male property owners
the only group that could vote in the colonies was
harvard
the first college founded in north america was
ben franklin
the american who best exemplified the enlightenment way of thinking was
crops that sold easily
cash crops
near appalachian mountains
backcountry
governed slaves
slave codes
important new england industry
shipbuilding
cultural variety
diversity
subsistence farming
this means producing just enough to meet the families needs, with little left
middle passage
the most inhuman aspect of the triangular trade was the
tidewater
most of the large southern plantations were located in the
overseers
these plantation bosses kept the slaves working hard
plantation owners
this group controlled the economic and political life of the southern colonies