Across
- 4. The voyage that brought Africans to
- 6. the British government banned all settlement west of the Appalachians to avoid further conflicts with Native Americans.
- 7. West Indies and later to North America.
- 9. a theory that a country's ultimate goal was self-sufficiency and that all countries were in a competition to acquire the most gold and silver.
- 11. an ambitious 22-year-old officer named George Washington, who established an outpost called Fort Necessity.
- 13. the Ottawa leader who recognized that the French loss was a loss for Native Americans.
- 14. England relaxed its enforcement of most regulations in return for the continued economic loyalty of the colonies.
- 15. the French colony in North America. The population was about 70,000.
- 17. religious revival that lasted throughout the 1730s and 1740s.
- 18. people who were considered the property of others.
- 19. enlightenment figure who embraced the notion of obtaining truth through experimentation and reasoning. He is famous for flying a kite in a thunderstorm, and thus demonstrating that lightning is a form of electrical power.
Down
- 1. a revolt by about 20 slaves who killed several planter families and planned to run to Spanish-held Florida. The group was eliminated by a white militia. The survivors were then executed. This led to stricter slave laws.
- 2. an energetic, self-confident politician who reinvigorated the British army and created an alliance with the Iroquois.
- 3. England's legislative body.
- 5. a period of influenced by science where they concluded that the world is governed not by chance or miracles by fixed mathematical laws.
- 7. three-way trading process: merchants carried rum and other goods from New England to Africa; in Africa they traded their merchandise for enslaved people, whom they transported to the West Indies and sold for sugar and molasses; these goods were then shipped to New England to be distilled into rum.
- 8. it strengthened the enforcement of the law allowing prosecutors to try smuggling cases in a vice-admiralty court rather than in a more sympathetic colonial court.
- 10. series of laws restricting colonial trade.
- 12. the fourth war between Great Britain and France for control of North America.
- 16. crop grown primarily for sale rather than for the farmer's own use. Examples: tobacco, rice, and indigo.
