Early Colonies
This occurred as a result of European colonization of the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This colony had a cold and short growing season.
What is the New England Colony?
Under this policy, the colonies developed their own independent governments, cultures, and trading relationships because rules and laws were loosely enforced.
What is salutary neglect?
What area were England and France feuding to have control over?
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This was a tax on sugar and molasses
What is the Sugar Act (1764)
These are the THREE ways colonists responded to new laws and taxes.
What is petitions, boycotts, and violent protests.
This is where the "Shot Around the World" happened and started this fighting of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
The negative impact of colonization on Native Americans
Diseases and Slavery
This colony is known for their reliance on Slavery and plantations.
What is the Southern colonies?
This is when a nation exports more than they import.
What is a Favorable Balance of Trade?
This is a financial impact of the French and Indian War and caused this to be placed on the colonists.
What is war debt and new laws and taxes?
This is universal search warrants to search for smuggled goods.
What is Writs of Assistance (1763)?
This was a protest in December 1773, where American colonists, disguised as Native Americans dumped 342 chests of British Tea in the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This person was named Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
The reason Jamestown colony was able to be successful.
What is the tobacco crop?
This colony was known for religious toleration.
What is the Middle Colonies?
Two reasons that the colonists could not rely on the British government?
1. Distance between England and the colonies
2. Difficult to travel within the colonies
What geographic feature was the boundary for the Proclamation of 1763?
Appalachian Mountains
This is where the colonists had to host British troops in their homes.
What is the Quartering Act (1765)?
Who is John Locke?
These three things were advantages that the British had during the Revolution.
What is military, supplies, and money?
The three Gs as to why the British established colonies in the Americas.
What is Gold, God, and Glory?
This colony was known for fishing and practicing subsistence farming.
What is the New England Colonies?
New England Town Meetings were an example of this type of government.
What is Direct Democracy?
This policy changed for the colonies after the French and Indian War.
(Hint: it was revoked)
This is when British tea was reduced in price to prevent foreign tea from being smuggled by colonial tea merchants?
What is the Tea Act (1773)?
These are the four parts of the Declaration of Independence?
What is the Preamble, a new theory of government, a list of grievances against the King, and a formal resolution declaring Independence?
These are the three disadvantages of the British army during the Revolution.
What is
1. lack of support
2. far from home
3. Didn't know the land
The difference between indentured servitude and Slavery.
What is indentured servitudes chose to immigrate and could be given freedom vs slaves were forced to immigrate (kidnapped) and did not have freedom.
This colony had fertile land (great for growing corn and wheat)
What is the middle colonies?
The Virginia House of Burgesses is an example of this kind of government.
What is indirect democracy?
This is how the British weakened Native American forces and forced tribes to negotiate.
What is British officers giving small-pox infected blankets during peace negotiations?
This was a tax on imported goods (glass, tea, paper, paint, etc)
What is the Townshend Act (1767)?
According to the Declaration of Independence, the three key ideas of government?
What is
1. Natural Rights (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness)
2. Government get their power from the people
3. When a government fails to protect natural rights, the people can alter and abolish it
What are the three advantages and the three disadvantages of the Americans during the Revolution?
Advantages:
1. Believed in the war
2. Defending home
3. Fighting for Freedom
Disadvantages:
1. less soldiers
2. No money
3. No real government