Exam 4: Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent, 1720-1763

More than one million slaves died on the ____________________ across the Atlantic Ocean.

Benjamin Franklin founded the first newspaper in British America.

Paper money not backed by gold or silver was known as ____________________ money.

In 1754, George Washington ordered the attack that started the French and Indian War.

____________________ were individuals who went out and enslaved free people in the Caribbean.

By the 1720s, most colonial governments

By mid-eighteenth century, indigo became a second staple crop in ____________________.

Almost ____________________ percent of African slaves arriving in the American colonies between 1730 and 1775 arrived on British-owned ships.

After 1750, Oxford and Cambridge Universities continued to meet the colonies' need for Anglican churchmen.

The founder of the Georgia colony was John Locke.

William Pitt, who became Britain's war minister in 1757, believed that coercion was the only way to deal with the colonies.

In the Great Awakening, Anglican minister ____________________ attracted thousands to his lively, theatrical sermons.

The Great Awakening created several new colleges.

Examine the Great Awakening. What were its results?

By 1750, tobacco and rice planters had many contacts with each other and thought of themselves as "southerners."

Irish immigrants from Ulster were members of the ____________________ Church.

For most of the Seven Years' War, Spain

____________________ attempted to part the waters of the Savannah River and lead the slaves to freedom in Georgia.

The New York Weekly Journal's ____________________ won a major victory for freedom of the press in 1735.

Apart from Charleston, the largest concentration of slaves in North America was in