Terms for Chapter 3

Question 1

Individual who agreed to work without wages for a period of time in exchange for transportation to the colonies

Answer 1

Indentured servant

Question 2

Three-way pattern of trade that involved England English colonies in the Americas and west Africa

Answer 2

Triangular Trade

Question 3

The forced transport of enslaved Africans from west Africa to the Americas

Answer 3

Middle passage

Question 4

African-American poet who is captured in west Africa at age 7 and sold to someone in Boston. She learn to read and write and her owners home. She had good poems but people refused to publisher poems. She later found a London publisher to print her poems and in the same year she was granted her freedom

Answer 4

Phillis Wheatley

Question 5

English document from 1215 that limited the power of the king and provided basic rights for citizens

Answer 5

Magna Carta

Question 6

Legislative body of a country

Answer 6

Parliament

Question 7

Document signed in 1689 that bound to the rights of English citizens

Answer 7

English bill of rights

Question 8

Constitutional guarantee that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed

Answer 8

Habeus corpus

Question 9

British policy in early 1700s which allows the colonies virtual self-rule as long as great Britian was gaining economically

Answer 9

Salutary neglect

Question 10

Economic policy under which a nation accumulate wealth by exporting more goods than it imports

Answer 10

Mercantilism

Question 11

British trade laws and acted by Parliament during the mid 1700s that regulated colonial commerce

Answer 11

Navigation acts

Question 12

Early century movement during which European philosophers believed that societies problems could be solved using reason and science

Answer 12

Enlightenment

Question 13

Famous for creating bifocals and electricity. Most famous printer in the 1700s famous for printing poor Richards almanac

Answer 13

Benjamin Franklin

Question 14

Religious movement in English colonies during the 1730s and 1740s which was heavily inspired by ventricle preachers

Answer 14

Great awakening

Question 15

Crops in constant demand

Answer 15

Staple crop

Question 16

Crops grown for sale

Answer 16

Cash crop

Question 17

Private schools operated out of a woman’s home in the colonies

Answer 17

Dame school

Question 18

War fought from 1745 to 1763 in which Britain and its colonies defeated France and it’s Indian allies, gaining control of eastern North America

Answer 18

French and Indian war

Question 19

Uprising in 1763 by Indians in the Great Lakes region

Answer 19

Pontiacs rebellion

Question 20

Declaration by the British king ordering all colonist remain east of the appellation Mountains

Answer 20

Proclamation of 1763

Question 21

Benjamin Franklin 1745 proposal to create one government for the 13 colonies

Answer 21

Albany plan of union