New England Southern Colonies French and Indian War PotpourriFinal

This group was nearly wiped out because of conflicts with the colonists over land.

Native Americans

This document was considered an important step in development of American democracy because it established a basis for self government in the Plymouth colony.

The Mayflower Compact

The Puritans were guided by this book in their daily life.

The Bible.

Most New England colonists made their living as this in the early 1600s.

As an artisan or small farmer.

The geographic characteristics of New England that discouraged the growth of plantations.

Rocky soil, short growing season, cold climate….

Most Chesapeake settlers in the 1600s made their living growing this crop.

Tobacco

The geographic features that led to the growth of the plantation system in the South.

Fertile soil, long growing seasons, warm climate, adequate rainfall.

Many slaves did not survive this across the Atlantic Ocean as a result of suffocation and disease, brutality and violence and suicide.

The Middle Passage

After this event, planters increasingly turned to African slaves as their labor source.

Bacon’s Rebellion.

This was important to the development of democracy in the 13 colonies because it provided an example of a representative government.

The House of Burgesses.

The dispute over land in this region was the main cause of the French and Indian War.

The Ohio River Valley

This future US President rose to fame during the war.

George Washington

This document ended the war and gave Britain the land east of the Mississippi River and Canada.

The Treaty of Paris of 1763

Parliament planned to pay off the debt of the French and Indian War through these measures.

Taxing the colonists.

This was issued after French and Indian War to avoid conflicts between American colonists and the Native Americans.

The Proclamation of 1763.

This colonial region had the greatest ethnic and religious diversity.

The Middle Colonies

This economic system was based on the idea that the American colonies existed to primarily provide economic benefits to the mother country.

Mercantilism

This trade network directly led to the importation of African slaves and the exportation of natural resources.

The Triangular Trade Route

These Acts regulated foreign trade for the colonies mandating the use of English ships and sailors for all trade.

The Navigation Acts.

This British policy allowed the colonists self rule as long as the mother country benefitted from the colony’s prosperity.

Salutary (benign) Neglect

The Bill of Right’s protection of the freedom of the press is directly related to the trial of this colonist.

John Peter Zenger

This woman was excommunicated by the Puritans for refusing to speak directly to God.

Anne Hutchinson.