Life in the English Colonies
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- Q1People usually appointed by the king or queen to run each colony (Except Connecticut who elected theirs).Governors
Presidents
Kings
Lords
30s - Q2Groups of elected representatives who helped make laws and set policy in some colonies.
Parlaments
Senates
AssembliesGovernors
30s - Q3Common in New England colonies. Here people could meet to talk about and decide on issues of local interest.
Congress
Assemblies
Town MeetingsCourts
30s - Q4Passed in 1689 to limit the power of the monarchy and to establish a system of government in which the people and the parliament share power with the monarchy.
Proclamation Act
The Enlightenment
English Bill of RightsNavigation Act
30s - Q5These were used in colonies to control local affairs and protect individual freedoms.
Assemblies
Militias
Town Meetings
Colonial Courts30s - Q6A system designed to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests and trade. Used by England over its colonies
Triangular Trade
Capitalism
Communism
Mercantilism30s - Q7Passed between 1650 - 1696. Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.Navigation Acts
Proclamation Acts
Mercantilism
English Bill of Rights
30s - Q8A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent raw materials to Europe, and Europe sent guns and rum to Africa
Colonialism
Triangular TradeMiddle Passage
Mercantilism
30s - Q9Name given to the. journey that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies. Terrible and deadly and could take up to 3 months.Middle Passage
Mercantilism
Triangular Trade
The Long Journey
30s - Q10A revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1750s. Message of spiritual equality led some colonists to demand more political equality.Great Awakening
Mercantilism
The Enlightenment
Puritanism
30s - Q11A movement in the 1700's that emphasized logic and reason as guides to improve society. Promoted the idea of a social contract between government and citizens and that people had natural rights such as equality and liberty.
The Great Awakening
Mercantilism
EnlightenmentThe Renaissance
30s - Q12(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won and gained power and land in North America.The French and Indian War
The Colonial Conflict
The American Revolution
The French and British War
30s - Q13Signed in 1763 and officially ended the French and Indian War. The terms gave Canada, lands east of the Mississippi River and Florida to Britain.
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Britain
Treaty of New England
Treaty of Paris30s - Q14An law in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains and ordered settlers to leave the Ohio River Valley.
English Bill of Rights
Colonial Settlement Act
Navigation Act
Proclamation of 176330s