13 Colonies
These four colonies made up the New England region.
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut
Fertile soil and grain production gave the Middle Colonies this nickname.
Breadbasket
This was a series of Protestant religious revivals that spread through the colonies.
Great Awakening
These three rights are specifically named as unalienable in the Declaration.
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness
These four colonies made up the Middle Colonies.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
This crop became central to Virginia’s economy.
Tobacco
Revival preaching emphasized this personal responsibility for determining right and wrong.
Individual moral responsibility / conscience
According to the Declaration, this is the main purpose of government.
To secure individual rights
This colony became especially known for religious liberty and separation of church and civil government.
Rhode Island
Young people often learned skilled trades by working under experienced masters through this system.
Apprenticeship
Traveling preachers, newspapers, pamphlets, taverns, and meetings helped create this kind of shared colonial culture.
Public culture / shared culture of debate
This phrase means that legitimate political power comes from the people who are governed.
Consent of the governed
William Penn established this colony as a Quaker “holy experiment.”
Pennsylvania
Rice and indigo plantations became especially important in this Southern colony.
South Carolina
By encouraging people to judge religious leaders for themselves, the Great Awakening helped weaken automatic respect for this.
Established authority / traditional authority
According to the Declaration, people may do this when a government repeatedly violates their rights.
Alter or abolish the government
This colony was founded partly as a buffer between British South Carolina and Spanish Florida.
Georgia
Colonial daily life differed greatly depending on wealth, gender, age, occupation, region, and whether a person was free, indentured, or enslaved—this last distinction is called a person’s ________.
Legal status
This term describes the intense enthusiasm, anger, urgency, and commitment that developed as resistance to Britain increased.
Revolutionary fervor
The grievances against King George III were included to provide this for the argument that British government had violated colonial rights.
Evidence