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What is the tidewater?
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A region of flat, low-lying plains along the seacost.
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What were the laws that governed slaves named?
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Slave Codes
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Name the first college in the United States?
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Harvard College (1636)
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Who was William Pitt?
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He oversaw the war effort for the British from London.
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Name the British commander in North America.
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Edward Braddock
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What type of farming was practiced in New England?
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Subsistence farming
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What type of farming was practiced in New York?
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Economic farming (cash crops)
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Name the most profitable cash crop in South Carolina and Georgia.
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Rice
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How did England view its North American colonies?
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As an economic recourse.
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Who exemplified the Enlightenment?
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Benjamin Franklin
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What are groups of civilians trained to fight emergencies called?
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Militia
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What proposal sought to unite the American colonies against the French?
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The Albany Plan of Union
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Who was the Seven Years' War between?
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Britain and France
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Which Native American leader recognized that British settlers threathed the Native Americans' way of life?
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Pontiac
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What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies called?
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The Great Awakening
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