chapter 3
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- New France
- French colony in North America
- Pontiac
- Native American leader who fought the British
- Stono Rebellion
- A 1739 slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina
- Proclomation of 1763
- Law limiting the area of English settlement
- Fench and Indian War
- War that gave teh British control of North America
- middlle passage
- The voyage that brought slaves to America
- Parliament
- The lawmaking body of England
- cash crop
- A crop grown for sale rather than for the farmer's use
- George Washington
- Led Virginia troops in first battle in the French and Indian War
- Navigation Acts
- Laws passed by the British to control colonial trade
- salutary neglect
- An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies
- Sugar Act
- Law passed by Parliament to try to raise money
- Benjamin Franklin
- Philidelphia inventor, writer, and political leader
- George Grenville
- Financial expert who was appointed prime minister of Britain in 1763
- triangular trade
- The pattern of shipping trade across the Atlantic
- Great Awakening
- Religous revival movement in the colonies
- Jonathan Edwards
- Forceful preacher in the Great Awakening
- mercantilism
- Theory that countries should acquire gold and focus on exporting goods and owning colonies
- William Pitt
- British leader in the French and Indian War
- Glorious Revolution
- Overthrow of James ll
- Sir Edmund Andros
- Governor appointed by the King of England to govern over the Dominion of England
- Enlightenment
- Intellectual movement that started in Europe
- slave
- Person who is considered the property of another
- Dominion of New England
- A huge colony formedby the King of England, which included land form southern Maine to New Jersey