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| What are crops that can be sold easily for money? | cash crops |
| What region in the south did not have many slaves and the families worked hard to make their own living | backcountry |
| What is the southern region with most of the large plantations and slave populations? They also raised cash crops like rice, tobacco, and indigo. | tidewater |
| What are the rules for slaves concerning travel, behavior, and education? | slave codes |
| What is a major industry of the northern colonies because they have abundant resources to construct this product? | ship building |
| What is a major characteristic of the middle colonies regarding the various ethnic backgrounds of immigrants and inhabitants of the colonies? | diversity |
| What landform was the backcountry located near? | Appalachian Mountains |
| Why did New York City and Philadelphia grow to be very large cities? | the need for a place to sell cash crops |
| What was the name for the trade routes which connected Britain, the American Colonies, and Africa? | triangular trade |
| What part of the triangular trade route was the most inhuman? | southern slave trade branch |
| What type of farm would have a main house, slave housing, barns, a school, chapel, and possible carpenter or blacksmith shops? | large plantations |
| Who were the plantation bosses hired to keep slaves in line, working, and accounted for? | overseers |
| What type of agriculture means a person raises just enough to meet the families needs, with very little to exchange or sell? | subsistence agriculture |
| Which group of people in the south controlled economic and political life? | plantation owners |
| What type of colony had its inhabitants appoint their own Governor, upper, and lower house representatives? | Charter colony |
| What type of colony had its their own Governor and upper house appointed by the owner of the colony and the lower house representatives appointed by the people of the colony? | Proprietary Colony |
| What type of colony had its their own Governor and upper house appointed by the king and the lower house representatives appointed by the people of the colony? | Royal Colony |
| What were the requirements for voting in the American Colonies? | White, Property owner |
| What is the theory of economics which states the accumulation of gold by the mother country displays power, and the colonies are possessions to forward this goal? | Mercantilism |
| What is the name of the ascention of William of Orange and Mary to the throne of Britain? | Glorious Revolution |
| What is the list of rights which the King and Government must recognize for all of its citizens? | English Bill of Rights |
| What are the laws which forbade any British Colonies from trading with any other Nation except its mother country? | Navigation Acts |
| What are the Northern Colonies? | Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island |
| What are the Middle Colonies? | Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, New Jersey |
| What are the Southern colonies? | Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia |
| What is the term for illegally trading to circumnavigate the Navigation Acts of the British? | smuggling |
| What was the name of the earliest colleges in America? | Harvard, William & Mary |
| What man was considered to be the best American example of the Enlightenment? | Benjamin Franklin |
| What were some of the inventions of Benjamin Franklin? | Poor Richard's Almanac, Lightning Rod, bifocal eyeglasses, franklin stove, hospital, fire department, lending library |
| What is the name of the movement of the Holy Spirit through Colonists during the 1720's to 1740's? | Great Awakening |
| Who are the two main leaders of the Great Awakening? | George Whitefield & Jonathan Edwards |
| Who were the people which churned butter & cheese, preserved food, tended chickens & cows and cared for the children? In addition some worked in fields & held jobs? | women |
| Which colonies required public education so citizens could read and understand books? (primarily the Bible) | Massachusetts |
| What were the three things that the enlightenment believed could improve society? | human knowledge, human science, human reason |
| Why did the majority of people come to the New England colonies? | to establish their own religion |
