shipbuilding
inportant New England Industry
Cash Crops
crops that sold easily
Diversity
cultural variety
Backcountry
near Appalachian Mountains
Slave Codes
governed slaves
Subsistence farming
means producing just enough to meet the families needs, with little left over to sell or exchange
Middle Passage
The most inhuman aspect of the triangular trade
Tidewater
Were most of the large Southern plantations located
Overseers
The plantation bosses who kept the enslaved Africans working hard
Plantation Owners
Controlled the economic and political life of the Southern Colonies
Mercantilism
economic theory
Smuggling
trading illegally
Britain ruled
royal colonies
Great Awakening
religious revival
Apprentice
learning assistant to craft worker
Navigation
law that directed the flow of goods between England and the colonies
Compact Colony
not an American Colony
White Male Property Owners
The only people who could vote in the colonies
Harvard
First college found in North America
Benjamin Franklin
The american who best exemplified the Enlightenment way of thinking
Pickawillany
british fort
Louisbourg
French fortress
Iroquois Confederacy
powerful group of native americans
Militia
civilian soldiers
Benjamin Franklin
author of Albany Plan of Union
Fort Necessity
The small post in the Ohio country established by George Washington
British and French
By 1700 the major powers in the North America
raiding British settlements
During the war between France and Great Britain, Native Americans often helped the French by...
Ohio River valley
Where George Washington's first command was
George Washington
The colonists regard as the hero who struck the first blow against the French
George Washington
one of Edward Braddock's guides
William Pitt
Britain's prime minister
James Wolfe
conquered Quebec
Jeffrey Amherst
conqured Montreal
Pontiac
united Native Americans
Edward Braddock
The commander in chief of the British forces in America who was to drive the French out of America
Treaty of London
Document marked the end of France as a power in North America
Britain And Spain
After the Treaty was signed in 1763 the continent was divided between which 2 countries
A halt to westward expansion
The Proclamation of 1763 called for...
owned land west of the mountains
The Proclamation of 1763 angered wealthy speculators beacause they