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Subsistence Farming

Producing just enough for your family to survive without leaving much left over.

Cash Crop

Crops primarily grown for market and profit.

Middle Passage

The voyage in which enslaved Africans were transported from Africa to the Americas.

Triangular Trade

Trade routes between Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

Export

To sell goods abroad.

Import

To buy goods from abroad.

The Proclamation of 1763

Prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Sugar Act

Lowered the tax on imported molasses to reduce smuggling.

Stamp Act

Placed a tax on nearly all printed material in the colonies.

Writs of Assistance

Allowed officers to enter any location in search of smuggled goods.

Sons of Liberty

An organization formed to protest the Stamp Act, known for violent actions against tax collectors.

Stamp Act Congress

A meeting of representatives from nine colonies that declared only their own assemblies could tax them.

Vice-Admiralty Courts

Courts run by officers without juries, used for trying smugglers.

Declaratory Act

Stated Britain could tax the colonists whenever it wanted.

Daughters of Liberty

Women's organizations that urged Americans to produce goods themselves to avoid British tax.

The Virginia House of Burgess Resolution

Declared it had the exclusive right to lay taxes.

Inflation of Population from 1700 to mid-1770s

The population in the colonies increased from 250,000 to 2.5 million.

Major Cities in the Colonies

Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Savannah, and Charleston.

Colonial Economy

Based on farming, shipbuilding, trade, and other activities.

French and Indian War

A conflict between France and Britain for resources, wealth, and power in North America.