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Prentice Hall U.S. Hist. CH.3
Growth ofthe American Colonies
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10th Grade
09/07/2008

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How did the English Civil War affect the development of the colonies?
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England was so busy within their own borders, that they ignored the North American Colonies.
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How did mercantilism influence England's colonial laws and foreign policy?
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England took the raw materials from its colonies to manufacture goods, which they traded back to the colonies for expensive prices to get even more raw materials. England also prevented its colonies from trading with any other countries to ensure that the colonies bought goods from England alone.
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What was Britain's colonial policy in the early 1700s?
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To neglect their colonies. (Salutary Neglect)
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What farming, trade, and settlement patterns defined the diverse economies of the colonies?
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Southern Colonies grew and harvested crops. The Middle colonies had a mixture of farming and commerce. The New England Colonies were of ports for trade and goods.
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What is Mercantilism?
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Mercantilism held that a country should try to get and keep as much bullion, or gold and silver, as possible. This was vital to create wealth and power.
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What is Balance of Trade?
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The difference in value between imports and exports.
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What is a Duty?
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A tax.
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What is Salutary Neglect?
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To neglect something for ones benefit.
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What is a Staple Crop?
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Crops that are in constant demand.
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What was the Triangular Trade?
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Manufactured goods from England were traded for materials in the West Indies to new England to make rum. Rum was used to trade in Africa for slaves.
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This held that a country should try to get and keep as much bullion, or gold and silver, as possible. This was vital to create wealth and power.
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Mercantilism
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The difference in value between imports and exports.
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Balance of Trade
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A tax.
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Duty
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To refuse any attention for something for ones benefit.
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Salutary Neglect
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Crops that are in constant demand.
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Staple Crop
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Manufactured goods from England were traded for materials in the West Indies to new England to make rum. Rum was used to trade in Africa for slaves.
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The Triangular Trade
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What was the Navigation Act?
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The Navigation Act tightened English control over colonial trade.
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It tightened English control over colonial trade.
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Navigation Act
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How was the colonial society organized?
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Anyone' place in society depended on wealth, gender, and race. Wealthy were superior to the poor, men were superior to women, and whites were superior to blacks.
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Why was wealth in land important?
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Landowning men dominated the politics.
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What were some common trades and occupations in the colonies.
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Artisans created high quality items for the wealthier people. Printers were respected members of society, they gathered and circulated local news and information. Farmers and Fishermen worked to feed the colonists. To be an Indentured Servant was to be an immigrant who came with their family to America to work for a master who paid their traveling cost.
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What rights and responsibilities did colonial women have?
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They had no legal political standing, they couldn't vote or hold office, and they were under their husband's control. A woman's role was to contribute to the household and the community.
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What was the nature of work and education in the colonies?
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If you worked hard, you could keep your family alive. Working white men had it better in America than most had in Europe. Attendance of school was not required, and even children who attended received very little education. Girls did not go to school, they learned only from their mothers. Boys going to college first went to grammar school. In southern colonies, private tutors were hired.
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What was a Gentry?
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Men or women wealthy enough to hire others to work for them, set themselves apart by their clothing: wigs, silk stockings, lace cuffs, and the latest fashions in suits, dresses, and hats.
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Men or women wealthy enough to hire others to work for them, set themselves apart by their clothing: wigs, silk stockings, lace cuffs, and the latest fashions in suits, dresses, and hats.
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Gentry
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What is an Apprentice?
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Persons placed under a legal contract to work for another person in exchange for learning a trade.
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Persons placed under a legal contract to work for another person in exchange for learning a trade.
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Apprentice
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What is an Almanac?
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A book containing information such as calendars, weather predictions, wise sayings, and advice.
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A book containing information such as calendars, weather predictions, wise sayings, and advice.
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Almanac
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What is Indigo?
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A type of plant used in making a blue dye for cloth.
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A type of plant used in making a blue dye for cloth.
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Indigo
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What is to be Self-Sufficient?
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Able to make everything needed to maintain itself.
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Able to make everything needed to maintain itself.
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Self-Sufficient
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What was the Middle Passage?
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The leg of the Triangle Trade that transported slaves from Africa to the Americas.
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The leg of the Triangle Trade that transported slaves from Africa to the Americas.
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The Middle Passage
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How did the experience of Slavery differ from colony to colony?
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South Carolina and Georgia used Slaves for farm work and had less interaction with whites. Virginia and Maryland had them working on tobacco alongside whites. New England and the Middle Colony slaves had more varied occupations. Freed Blacks had tough lives but it could be worse.
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What restrictions did free blacks face?
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They could not vote, testify in court against whites, or marry whites.
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How did laws attempt to control slaves and prevent revolts?
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They didn't allow slaves aboard boats or to leave town without permission. The simplest of suspicions were accused as crimes with extreme consequence. Laws prevent slaves from organizing.
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What is a Mutiny?
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A revolt.
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A type of revolt.
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Mutiny
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What was the Stono Rebellion?
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Several dozen slaves near Charleston, SC, killed more than 20 whites. The slaves burned an armory and began to march toward Spanish Florida, where a small colony of runaway slaves lived. Armed Planters captured and killed the rebels.
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Several dozen slaves near Charleston, SC, killed more than 20 whites. The slaves burned an armory and began to march toward Spanish Florida, where a small colony of runaway slaves lived. Armed Planters captured and killed the rebels.
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The Stono Rebellion
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What drove the western expansion of colonial settlement?
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Population started to spike due to rising birthrate and more and more immigrants from more countries arrived. Colonists started to feel overcrowded and began a search for more room.
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How did Native Americans and the French react to the expansion of the colonies?
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Native Americans were forced to leave their lands and go west and south to other tribe's land causing conflict and war between them. The French felt threatened and began to defend their forts that would hold advantage of river forks.
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why did the Great Awakening both resolve and contribute to religious tensions?
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