5.2
Triangle Trade: the trade route from the Caribbean to the North Americas and Africa.
Mercantilism: the concept that there is a finite amount of gold in the world, gather all of it to you.
Navigation Acts: trade restricted to England
Middle Passage: the trip from Africa to North America, high death rates for slaves.
5.3
Southern Agriculture: large cash crop plantations, mixed with subsistence piedmont farming.
Slave Codes: specific laws aimed at controlling slaves, stopping them from organizing, educating, and revolting.
New England Industry: lumber, textiles, ship building. Fishing industry.
Middle Colonies Staple: staple crops such as corn, wheat, barley, oats. 6.1
King Phillip’s War: Metacomet, 1675 tensions over land and imminent threat of violence led to combat, ended in Phillip’s defeat.
Albany Plan of Union: Ben Franklin drafted it, for the colonies to unite under one banner and remove their individual autonomy (except Georgia would be left out). The colonies opted to remain as it.
French and Indian War: Fort Duquesne (French) and Fort Necessity (British) started this conflict in the Ohio River Valley, 1754-1763. French and Indians lost.
Treaty of Paris: 1763 Great Britain and France end the war, all French land East of the Mississippi, Spanish Florida, and Canada.
6.2
Ohio River Valley: area of high native population and great British interest, King George III says don’t go there, but they did anyways.
Pontiac’s Rebellion: Pontiac led natives in the Ohio River Valley, failed at Fort Detroit and gave up.
Proclamation of 1763: King George III, no settlement West of Appalachians. Ignored.
6.3
Sugar Act: passed by Parliament in 1764, set a tax on molasses and sugar imported to the colonies.
Committees of Correspondence: organized local colonial governments in order to resist British interference.
Boycott: to refuse to by certain goods.
Stamp Act: required payment for a stamp on all paper products, 1765
Sons of Liberty: organized against the stamp act, boycotts and intimidation.
Declaratory Act: Parliament has the power to make laws to the colonies, reaction to the Sugar Act being repealed.
6.4
Townshend Acts: 1767, placed duties on imported glass, paint, paper, tea, and lead.
Writs of Assistance: allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods as defined under the Townshend Acts.
John Hancock’s Liberty: his ship, tax collectors in Massachusetts accused him of smuggling, Sons of Liberty supported Hancock, the governor brought in troops as a result.
Propaganda: ideas facts and marketing and advertising to further one’s cause.
Boston Massacre (Crispus Attucks): 1770, snowball fight becomes gun play, soldiers open fire and kill 5. Crispus Attucks, African American dockworker is first martyr.
Tea Act: 1773, flooded the colonial market with cheap tea directly from India Tea Company, crushed local competition.
Boston Tea Party: colonists destroy tea in the Boston Harbor as a reaction to the Tea Act.
Intolerable/Coercive Acts: Spring 1774. Closed Boston Harbor, removed the Massachusetts Charter, royal officials sent to Britain, and forced quartering of British soldiers, and made Thomas Gage governor. Violation of colonists rights.
