American Studies

2. A cash crop was grown mostly on plantations and was meant to sell for profit
3. The theory of mercantilism in the colonies was there goal was to enrich great britain
4. The middle passage was the toughest part of the triangular trade
11. The navigation acts were meant to punish the colonists for illegal smuggling of goods
12. The militia was men from the colonies who fought for great britain
13. African Americans were the 2nd largest ethnic group in the colonies and most of them were slaves
18. The Triangular Trade was a 3 part susyem in which slaves were brought to the colonies.
19. King James II created the dominion of New England this covered the area from southern Maine to northern New Jersey.
20. Indentured servants came to the colonies from Europe to be apprentices with families and learn a trade.

1. The great awakening was a religious revival movement of the 1700s
5. The StonoRebellion was a slave uprising in the colonies
6. A plantation was a large farm in the southern colonies
7. Great britains biggest rival in north America was france
8. The sugar act places texes on imports to the colonies
9. Edmund Andros was named by King James II to rule over the dominion of New England
10. washtington attacked the French in the ohio river valley and this led to the French and Indian war
14. The enlightenment was an 18th century intellectual movement that emphasized reason and the scientific method
15. Salutary neglect was when britain relaxed its restrictions on the colonies
16. Parliament was the governing body of great britain
17. Ben Franklin invented by-focals, the Franklin stove and published poor Richard's almanac