SSUSH 1 - Building the 13 Colonies
This cash crop helped make the Virginia colony profitable.
Tobacco
This part of the trans-atlantic voyage carried enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Middle Passage
This law taxed printed materials in the colonies.
This man was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
This was the first national government of the United States.
Articles of Confederation
This economic system encouraged colonies to provide raw materials and markets for their mother country.
Mercantilism
This religious movement in the early 1700s challenged established churches and traditional religious authority.
Great Awakening
This pamphlet argued that the colonies should become independent from Britain.
Common Sense
This winter encampment helped transform Washington’s army into a more professional force.
Valley Forge
This compromise created a two-house national legislature (House of Representatives and Senate).
Great Compromise
This colonial region became the major shipbuilding and merchant center of English North America.
New England Colonies.
This intellectual movement challenged traditional religious influence and helped prompt the Great Awakening
Enlightenment
His British law prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
This battle’s location near the Delaware River allowed Washington to surprise enemy forces after crossing the river.
Battle of Trenton
These essays were written to persuade Americans to support ratification of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
This region was known for it's deep ports as well as farming of agricultural crops such as wheat and corn.
Middle Colonies
This British policy helped colonists become accustomed to making many decisions without direct British involvement
Salutary Neglect
This organization helped turn local resistance into coordinated colonial resistance throughout the colonies (Not Sons/Daughters of Liberty).
Committees of Correspondence
This battle became a major turning point because the American victory encouraged a formal French alliance.
Battle of Saratoga
This law reserved revenue from certain western land sales for public education.
Land Ordinance of 1785
This colonial region's economic development caused settlers to demand more American Indian land as profitable cash-crop agriculture expanded
Southern Colonies
This region’s Puritan foundation influenced education, religion, and community life.
New England colonies.
This punishment for Massachusetts increased cooperation among the colonies.
Intolerable Acts
This political philosophy provided the underlying justification for colonists breaking their relationship with Britain.
Social Contract Theory
This event convinced many influential Americans that the weaknesses of the Articles threatened the survival of the nation.
Shay's Rebellion