8th Unit 2 Vocab

The __________ trade was an economic system of trade between West Africa to the Caribbean and Americas to Europe, which supplied manufactured goods and other items to colonists in Africa and the Americas.

Under _____ charter colonies, Britain would appoint a governor and council to rule an area for the king.

A ___________ colony was usually granted to a proprietor (influential individual) by England.

A _______ colony was one in which Britain would grant a charter to the colonial government with established rules about how the colony should be governed.

During the ______ and Indian War, some Native Americans fought on the side of the British. Many others fought against the British.

The ______ Plan of Union was the first plan put together to unify the colonies under one unified government.

a British soldier especially in America during the Revolutionary War

The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the ___________ ____ in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.

From 1774 to 1789, the ___________ Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the United States.

Declaration of ____________, in U.S. history, document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain.