Exploration & Colonization
Columbian Exchange
13 colonies
Causes of the American Revolution
Historical Documents and Growth of Representative Government
100
Countries were in search of Riches
What is the economic reason for European Exploration?
100
mixture of religion, believes and ideas when more than one race combines
What is cultural diffusion?
100
New England, Southern and Middle
What are the regions of the American colonies?
100
colonist dressed up like Native Americans and dumped tea into the Boston harbor.
What is Boston Tea Party?
100
Historical Document developed in 1215 limiting the kings power and also granted important rights to noblemen and freemen along with trial by jury
What is the Magna Carta?
200
to keep up with Spain and other European rivals to make sure that other countries didn't get too much power
What are Political reasons for British establishing the colonies?
200
influenza, small pox, malaria, rats, weeds,
What are negative effects of the Columbian Exchange?
200
settled by the Pilgrims and the Puritains
What are the New England Colonies?
200
tax on paper products, playing cards & legal documents
What is the stamp act?
200
July 4, 1776, written by Thomas Jefferson, announced the separation of the colonies from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
New England, Southern and Middle
What are the regions that represent American Colonies?
300
transfer of plants, animals and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
crop that was easily grown and developed the need for cheap labor in the Southern Colonies.
What is tobacco?
300
Stopped the colonist from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
In 1639 this extended voting rights to non-church members and limited the power of the governor, expanding the idea of representative government.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
400
first settlement in the New World
What is Jamestown Virginia?
400
improved diets, horses, cattle, globalization
What are positive effects of the Columbian Exchange?
400
Main Social reason colonies were established.
What is to escape religious persecution?
400
caused the Americans to form the First Continental Congress
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
English agreement that guaranteed certain rights to all Englishment; influenced American Bill of Rights
What is the English Bill of Rights?
500
to have a new place to sell British goods and to be able to use the raw materials produced by the colonies
What is mercantilism?
500
The voyage of the slave ships from Africa to America
What is the middle passage?
500
They were used as form of cheap labor.
What are enslaved Africans?
500
making colonist pay taxes with out any say so in the British government decisions.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
500
The document created in 1787 that represents the rules and form of government to be followed in the United States.
What is the US Constitution?
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