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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.
Houses in Colonial America were most often made of which material

Wood was the most common material in colonial times.

Results of French and Indian War

Cause of French Indian war

What was the major economy of the middle colonies

Family farms and merchants

Who captured the Africans who were sold in the Atlantic slave trade

West African slave traders

Who controlled a married English woman's property

Her husband.

Why did the colonists need artisans

They made items the colonists needed.

What was one way plantation owners defended the idea of owning slaves

By saying that non-Christian people could be slaves.

What was one positive thing that Europeans received from the Columbian Exchange

New food sources

Which of these is a reason plantation owners preferred to have slaves rather then indentured servants

The children of slaves women were slaves who didn't need to be purchased

How did the fact that people began living longer in the colonies affect attitudes toward labor

it increased the value of owning slaves over hiring indentured servants

What is a difference between English law and the laws affecting slaves in Virginia was that under English law

The social condition of a father determined that of his child.

Former slaves who were released from slavery were called

Freedmen

The upper class of colonial cities most often included

Answer this question… Wealthy merchants

Farming in which colonial region tended to wear out the soil and created demand for additional farmland to the west

South

By the mid 1700s slaves in Virginia were

Private property, like farm animals.

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