Historical Context
What are places on the other side of Eurasia that the Europeans traded with for goods?
What is China?
AND/OR
What is India?
What are the three colonial regions of British North America?
What are New England, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies?
What kind of government and economic system did the British have that made rules for trade in the colonies?
What is mercantilism?
What is a conflict between Britain and France over territory in North America?
What is the French & Indian war?
What is a document that the Americans wrote that told the British what they wanted?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Social reason why the Europeans needed to find new trade routes?
What is conflict with Muslims in the Ottoman Empire/along the Silk Road?
What economic activity did New England focus on primarily?
What are natural resources and/or manufacturing?
What is Salutary Neglect?
What did the colonists want that the French had?
What is land west of the Appalachian Mountains and/or the Ohio River Valley?
What are two groups of people that did not agree about what should happen at the Second Continental Congress?
What are Loyalists and Patriots?
Many different foods and tools show that Native American societies had very different ________?
What is cultures and/or societies?
What economic activity did the Southern Colonies focus on primarily? Why?
What is agriculture? What is fertile soil?
What kind of government developed in the colonies because of British policies?
What is representative government?
What action did the British take after the conflict with France that angered the colonists (at least 3)?
What are the Stamp Act, Tea Act, Townshend Acts, Quartering Act, and Intolerable Acts?
What is a pamphlet written to convince people to become patriots during the Revolution?
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
Economic reason Europeans needed to find new trade routes?
What geographic feature made trade with Europe easier?
What are waterways and/or natural harbors?
What is are two example of governments in the colonies (Virginia & New England)?
What are the House of Burgesses and town hall meetings?
What conflict led to several crates of tea being dumped into the Atlantic Ocean to protest British laws?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
What are some (at least three) advantages that the British had during the Revolution?
What are military experience, money, and Native American support? (and/or large military, weapons, American loyalists)
What was the impact on Native Americans of contact with Europeans?
What is a severe reduction in population of the Native Americans due to war and disease?
What kind of workers were primarily responsible for agricultural work in the colonies (particularly the Southern Colonies)?
What are enslaved persons (from Africa)?
What is a border created after the conflict with the French that made the American colonists very angry?
What is the Proclamation Line?
What is a reason that colonists were angry about new laws passed by the British?
What is the Proclamation Line and/or "no taxation without representation"?
What are some (at least three) advantages that the Americans had during the Revolution?
What are alliances with the French, better knowledge of geography, and guerilla warfare? (and/or British distance from home, help from the Spanish/Dutch, French supplies/military training)