Template by Bill Arcuri, WCSD Click Once to Begin JEOPARDY! Great Britain and its American Colonies
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German immigrants immigrated to the colonies because of these reasons.
What is to avoid war, taxes, and religious persecution?
This is the reason why immigrants from England stopped coming to the colonies.
What is the English economy improved and religious conflict in England diminished?
Early in the 1600s, African were this type of worker.
What is an indentured servant?
This is where the majority of enslaved Africans were sent.
What is the West Indies?
This is the reason why the British passed the Navigation Acts.
What is to collect more custom duties so they could build a stronger navy? Daily Double!!!
This was the reaction of the colonists to the Enlightenment.
What is the majority of colonists did not know much about the Enlightenment thinkers?
This was result of the Glorious Revolution.
What is a coup in England during which King James II was overthrown?
This is the reason why the English government passed the policy known as salutatory neglect – allowing the colonies self rule. Daily Double!!!
What is colonial cooperation with its economic policies?
This is the definition of the mercantilism.
What is when a nation or empire builds wealth and power by developing its industries and exporting manufactured goods in exchange for gold an silver?
This was the main idea of the Enlightenment.
What is challenged old ways of thinking? Name 5 different philosophers who were around during the Enlightenment in Europe. Bonus
This was the policy in New England to hand out land. Daily Double!!!
What is colonies granted land to groups of men who banded together to form towns?
These two colonies produced tobacco.
What is Virginia and Maryland?
This was one aspect of life that the New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies all had in common.
What is a reliance on an agricultural economy?
This was the result of the plantation economy in the South. Daily Double!!!
What is the production of great profits at the expense of cultural development and equal opportunity?
This region produced the most staple crops in demand by Europeans.
What is the Southern Colonies? Bonus What allowed for this production of the staple crops?
This was the result of the Native Americans role during the French and Indian War.
What is the British and the French competed for Indian support?
This described the relationship between the British and their colonists after Pontiac’s Rebellion.
What is tension between the British and the colonists?
This was the result of the increase of the British colonial population. Daily Double!!!
What is the British became less concerned about winning Indian support?
This was the cause of Pontiac’s Rebellion.
What is British settlers flooding into Indian lands in western Pennsylvania and Virginia?
This was the result of Benjamin Franklin’s Albany Plan of Union. Daily Double!!!
This was the result of the French and Indian War.
What is the British were successful in driving the French out of North America? Bonus What lands did the British gain?
Principle that one may not be imprisoned unless charged with a crime.
What is habeas corpus?
Voyage of enslaved people from West Africa to the colonies. Daily Double!!!
What is the Middle Passage? Explain the conditions. Bonus
Series of trade laws enacted by England in the mid-1600s that affected the colonists
What are the Navigation Acts? Describe what the Navigation Acts did. Bonus
Document ordering colonial settlers to remain east of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This was produced by New England farmers.
What is raised livestock and grew wheat, maize, rye, and potatoes.