Cards in this guide (12)
Why was the colony of Jamestown established
To make money for the Virginia Company.
What was one result of the French and Indian War
Results of the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years War, included:
- Increased taxes on the American colonists to pay for the war
- England acquired the former French territories in Canada and owned all the land from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi river.
- French from Acadia were expelled and migrated to Louisiana, forming the Cajun culture
- settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains was forbidden by the Crown
- England acquired formerly French territory in the Caribbean and in India.
- King George III taxed American colonists to pay for the war.
- King George III would not let colonists settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
How did an armed force of English colonists led by George Washington start a European war
They tried to drive the French out of the Ohio River valley.
Why did the colonists need artisans
They made items the colonists needed.
Diaries letters and memoirs are good examples of what
Which of these is a similarity in the colonial settlement of many English convicts and African slaves
Both groups came against their will.
How were the west Africa kingdoms involved in the slavery trade
the west Africa used to sell their people into slavery to get
guns the leader were involved and they neglected agriculture
What is a primary source
A record that is made during or right after an event
What was one result of the navigation acts-
One result of the navigation acts was that the colonists could
only sell their products in England.
The slave laws of South Carolina were likely affected by the fact that
Many of its settlers came from the Caribbean
The lesson shows that laws passed in colonial America increasingly defined social status by
Answer this question… Race.
Slaves were brought from Africa to help grow which crop
All crops. To plant rice in Georgia, to grow / pick cotton, to
built roads and levies, to harvest sugar, to grow tobacco, to work
in houses, raise the white planters children, to dig the ditches,
and to do or make what they were told to do. They were
property.