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The name of the first permanent English settlement in America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
This 1754–1763 conflict between Great Britain and France over control of the Ohio River Valley resulted in Britain gaining vast North American territory.
What is the French and Indian War?
This famous slogan was coined by American colonists protesting British taxes passed without colonial members in Parliament.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
This act taxes sugar, molasses, and rum.
What is the sugar act?
The leg of Triangular trade where many slaves perished on the way from Africa to the Southern colonies.
What is the Middle Passage?
This colonial region had rocky soil and harsh winters.
What are the New England colonies?
The mountain range, close to the EASTERN coast, formed a natural boundary to the 13 colonies.
What are the Appalachian mountains?
Passed in 1765, this direct tax required colonists to pay a fee on almost all paper items, including legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This law required colonial assemblies and citizens to provide housing, food, and supplies to British soldiers stationed in America.
What is the Quartering Act?
Jamestown, Virginia was founded in this year.
What is 1607?
1) The economies of the New England colonies
2) The economy of the Southern colonies
1) What was fishing/whaling, shipbuilding, trade
2) What were plantation cash crops
Issued by King George III in 1763, this law prohibited British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
This act was a set of laws that placed indirect taxes on everyday imported goods such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Known in Britain as the Coercive Acts, these harsh 1774 laws were passed specifically to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
1)The large farms that grew cash crops and survived solely on enslaved labor
2) Which colonial region had plantation agriculture?
What is a plantation?
What are the Southern colonies?
What is the major factor in each colonial region's economy?
What is the climate and geography of each colonial region?
This is salutary neglect?
What is the idea that Britain "left the colonies alone" to essentially "do their own thing?"
This political secret society, led by figures like Samuel Adams, formed to oppose British taxation through protests and boycotts.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
One key provision of the Intolerable Acts was the complete shutdown of this vital colonial trade hub until the dumped tea was paid for.
What is Boston Harbor?
This is at least three reasons the Southern colonies were dependent on cash crops for their economy.
Coastal cities easy for trade
Warm, humid climate
Fertile soil
Long growing season
The abundance of this geographical feature in New England contributed greatly to the development of port cities.
What is a natural harbor?
This 1766 British statute explicitly rejected colonial arguments against taxation by asserting Parliament's absolute authority over the colonies "in all cases whatsoever"?
What is the Declaratory Act?
The passing of this final act(s) in 1774 spurred the creation of the First Continental Congress and colonial leaders supporting the idea of independence from Britain.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
Directly after the Intolerable Acts were passed, this assembly formed in the colonies to discuss colonial wide resistance to unfair taxation.
What is the FIRST Continental Congress?