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Subsistence farming
Producing enough to meet the needs of their family, with little to none left for sale or trade.
Cash crop
Crops that could be sold easily in markets in the colonies and overseas.
Diversity
Variety, such as ethnic or national groups.
Triangular trade
A pattern of trade that developed in colonial times among the Americas, Africa and Europe
Slave Code
Rules focusing on the behavior and punishment of enslaved people; laws in Southern states that controlled enslaved people.
Representative government
A system in which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government on their behalf.
Mercantilism
An economic theory that a nation's power depends on its ability to increase wealth by increasing exports and accumulating precious metals in return
Export
To sell goods to other countries
Import
To bring in goods from other countries.
English Bill of Rights
The ruler could not suspend Parliament's laws, impose taxes, or raise an army without Parliament's consent.
Navigation Acts
The law forced colonists to sell their raw materials to England even if they could get a better price elsewhere.
Immigration
The permanent movement of people into a country from other countries.
Epidemic
An illness that affects large numbers of people.
Apprentice
A person who learns a trade from a skilled craftsperson
Public Education Law
The Massachusetts Puritans required communities with 50 or more homes to have a public school
Great Awakening
A religious revival that inspired greater religious freedom
Jonathan Edwards
Minister from Massachusetts involved in the Great Awakening by giving powerful and convincing sermons.
The Enlightenment
The idea that knowledge, reason and science could improve society.
Censorship
The banning of printed materials because they contain unpopular or offensive ideas.
John Peter Zenger
Publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal who accused New York's governor of corruption
Militia
A military force made up of ordinary citizens.
Albany Plan of Union
This was to be for a united colonial government designed by Benjamin Franklin. Each colony would have to give up some of its power
French and Indian War
Conflict between the British and the French.
William Pitt
The Prime Minister of the British government that said Britain would pay for the French and Indian War knowing he would tax the colonists later to cover the cost of the war.
Treaty of Paris
This treaty forced France to give Canada and most of its land east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain.
Pontiac's War
Pontiac was the chief of an Ottawa village that captured British outposts. The forces killed settlers along the Pennsylvania and Virginia frontiers.
Iroquois Confederacy
The most powerful group of Native Americans in eastern North America
Alliance
Partnership
Middle Passage
The second or middle part of the three-part route across the ocean known as the triangular trade.
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