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Chapter 3 Test Flashcards

1
Q

As more families came to America the population grew faster

A

Natural Increase

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2
Q

Protestants (a.k.a.)

A

French Huguenots

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3
Q

African slaves journey from Africa to America

A

The Middle Passage

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4
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The undeveloped area at the edge of the settled areas

A

Frontier

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5
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The main north-south highway that stretched seven hundred miles

A

Great Wagon Road

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6
Q

Wagons used to carry belongings on wilderness trails

A

Conestoga Wagon

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7
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The farmers who raised just enough food for their families

A

Subsistence Farmer

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8
Q

Large fields usually tended by laborers

A

Plantation

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9
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The South’s wide coastal plain

A

Tidewater

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10
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The foothills of the Appalachian Mountains

A

Piedmont

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11
Q

The largest food crop in all the colonies

A

Corn/Maize

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12
Q

The trade between Boston, England, and Africa

A

Triangular Trade

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13
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The Puritan minister who translated the Bible for the Indians

A

John Eliot

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14
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Where Indians could learn about the Bible (set up by John Eliot)

A

Praying Towns

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15
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The war in 1637 where the colonists amushed an Indian fort and killed many Indians and sold the rest as slaves

A

Pequot War

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16
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The war where so many Indians died in it that the remaining Indians could not maintain their land or their way of life.

A

King Philip’s War

17
Q

The war where the colonists rebelled against their leadership

A

Bacon’s Rebellion

18
Q

The local army commanded by the governor

A

Militia

19
Q

A legislature’s power

A

“Power of the Purse”

20
Q

The group that tried people accused of crimes and settled dispute between citizens

A

Justices of the Peace

21
Q

The tax people payed when they owned land

A

Property Taxes

22
Q

The basic unit of government in New England

A

Township

23
Q

Men that would watch over the town during the night

A

Night Watchmen

24
Q

A relief effort which sent a poor person to live several weeks with each family

A

“Round the Town”

25
Q

A relief effort where a poor person would live with a single family and the family received money for doing so

A

“Putting Out”

26
Q

The French Huguenots had a particularily strong presence in ( )

A

South Carolina

27
Q

T/F: Not all of the colonies established legislators

A

False

28
Q

T/F: The governor had the “power of the purse”

A

False

29
Q

T/F: The French were one of the three largest groups of immigrants to the colonies

A

False

30
Q

T/F: There was not a town meeting for electing legislatures

A

True

31
Q

The massive wave of immigrants that settled in the Massachusetts Bay Coloney during the colony’s first ten years

A

The Great Migration

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