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What governing body did the monarch of England share power with

Parliament

What religion movement in England wanted a simpler, more basic type of worship

Puritans

How did the Puritans worship?

In plain. Self governing congregation. Without formal ceremonies

What order was given to the Virginia company by James 1 that was quickly abandoned?

To bring the Christian religion to the Indians. This was abandoned in favor of making money

What item cultivated by John Rolfe saved Virginia

Tobacco

According to John Winthrop, how would a "True wife" find contentment

In submission to husband's authority

How was the British colonizers different from other European colonizers?

Had far more women

What was the Act of Union in 1707?

England and Scotland were combined to form Great Britain

Which colonies were the most ethnically diverse

Middle colonies

What colonies made up the middle colonies?

New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland

What was the largest non English ethic group in the colonies

Scot-Irish and Germans

Which colonies utilize slavery the most?

Virginia and Maryland

Which regions used slaves the most?

The South

Who was the father of New France

Soilder-explorer Samuel de Camplin

What did Samual de Champlin found

Port Royal in Acadia

How were the French colonies differ from the other European colonies?

Never invested the people or resources in North America like the English. Less population. Befriended Natives, learn their language, and married native women

How did the English differ from the other European colonies in their treatment of native

Other European colonies made allies

Regulating colonial economies to benefit the mother country

Mercantilism

How did the British use Merchantlism

Taxed, regulated, or subsidized key industries

Restrictions placed by Parliament to control colonial trade and bolster the merchant system

Navigation Acts

What did the Navigation acts state?

All goods be carried only in English owned ships built in England

A monarchy where the king or queen power is limited by a constitution

Constitutional monarchy

What was a strength of the British during the revolution?

Recruiting loyalist, African Americans, and Natives

What were some of the weakness of the British during the revolution

Not enlisting as many as they hoped. Difficulties supplying big army. Expense of war. America was aided by the French. Americans knew the land

Part time non professional solider, mostly poor farmers or recent immigrant who had been indentured servants

Citizen soilders

How would you describe the average Patriot Soilder?

Poorly trained citizen soilders

What was the significance of the Battle of Saratoga?

The American victory help convince the French to enlist on the side of the Patriots

Why was the Battle of Kinds Mountain significant

Proved that the British and their soilders could be defeated in the south

What did Abigail Adam's wrote to her husband to ask for

Equality for women

"I desire you would remember the ladies.... Do not put such unlimited powers into the hands of the husband "

Abigail Adams

Where did Washington army spend a miserable winter in 1777 to 1778

Valley Forge

Created by the Separatists on board the Mayflower. It is a formal agreement by the congregation to abide by the laws

Mayflower Compact

What group led by John Winthrop were to beca Christian community?

Mass. Bay Puritans

Which colony came to be due to recruitment of planters in Barbados?

Southern Carolina

Why did Virginia prefer West African slaves?

Cultivation of Yams were similar to the cultivation of tobacco

Believed that Christians became too obsessed with making money and the Enlightenment was eroding the importance of religious life

Johnathan Edwards

What happened as a result of the French and Indian war to French Territories in the US

Treaty of Paris: British gained most of North America and the Spanish gained the Lousiana territories

Why did the colonists oppose the Sugar Act

More taxes without their consent

Required the colonies to feed and house British troops

Quartering Acts

Created by the continental Congress, this urged King George to negotiate with his angry colonies

Olive Branch petition

Who settled Rhode Island

Roger Williams and the Separatists

What colony did James Oglethorpe gound

Georgia

Where did the proprietors of SC come from?

Large Grant's to prominent English men