Colonial Life & Regions
These colonies developed large plantations and relied heavily on cash crops such as tobacco, rice and indigo.
What are the Southern colonies?
What is "No taxation without representation!"
The principles of John Locke's Enlightenment ideas is most apparent in which 1776 document?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This Founding Father was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America, established in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
These colonies generally had rocky soil, cold winters, and an economy based heavily on trade, fishing, and shipbuilding.
What are the New England colonies?
This 1765 law placed a tax on newspapers, legal documents, and other printed materials in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
This document established a form of self-government for the Pilgrims and was based on the idea of a majority rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
John Locke argued that all people possess these three natural rights.
What are life, liberty, and property?
This term describes the widespread exchange of plants, animals, people, diseases, and goods between the Americas and Europe/Africa.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These colonies had fertile soil, a longer growing season, and an economy that included farming and trade.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This 1773 law gave the British East India Company about advantage in selling tea and led to the Boston Tea Party.
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" had such a large impact on the American colonies because it led to this decision.
What is declare independence from England?
Paul Revere's famous midnight ride took place just before these battles, the first major battles of the American Revolution.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This was Britain's economic policy of controlling colonial trade to benefit the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This cash crop helped Virginia become economically successful and led to an increased demand for labor.
What is tobacco?
Although Britain won the French & Indian War, this consequence contributed to growing tensions between Britain and its American colonies.
What is Britain's large war debt, which led to new colonial taxes?
This treaty ended the American Revolutionary War, drew new geographic boundaries for the United States, and forced Great Britain to recognize the US as a free and sovereign nation.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
Thomas Paine challenged this form of government by arguing that hereditary rule was unfair and that people should govern themselves.
What is monarchy?
This colonial institution. established in Virginia in 1619, became the first representative legislative assembly in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The Proclamation of 1763 attempted to prevent colonists from settling west of this geographic feature after the French & Indian War.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
Britain passed these laws to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party, including closing Boston Harbor.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This founding father urged the colonies to unite for common defense against the British with this plan.
Who is Benjamin Franklin and the Albany Plan of Union?
These three founding fathers negotiated the terms of peace and ended the American Revolutionary War in Paris after two years of diplomacy talks.
Who is Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and John Adams.
This unofficial British policy allowed the colonies considerable freedom because Britain did not strictly enforce colonial regulations.
What is salutary neglect?
Established in 1636 by Puritans seeking religious freedom, this colony became known for town meetings and a strong tradition of self-government.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
In 1765, delegates from nine colonies met in New York to protest British law/taxes and argued that only colonial representatives had the right to tax the colonists.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
This Enlightenment idea became a major argument against British rule: governments receive their authority from the people and exist to protect their rights.
What is popular sovereignty/social contract theory?
This political philosopher argued for separation of powers and influenced the structure of the U.S. government.
Who is Montesquieu?
These 1651 series of laws regulated colonial trade and required certain goods to be transported on only English ships.
What were the Navigation Acts?