Colonial America
This region developed major ports and trading cities such as Boston. With long winters and short growing seasons.
What is New England?
A person who agreed to work for several years in exchange for passage to the colonies.
What is an indentured servant?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that people possess natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
Colonists protested British taxes with this famous idea: “No ______ without ______.”
What is taxation without representation?
This pamphlet written by Thomas Paine argued that America should separate from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
Deep harbors and access to the Atlantic helped northern colonies develop this major economic activity.
What is trade/shipping?
Many indentured servants accepted this system because they hoped eventually to gain this.
What is economic opportunity/prosperity?
The idea that government receives its power from the people.
What is consent of the governed?
This 1765 British tax required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
This document announced that the colonies were separating from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Southern colonies developed large farms known as these.
What are plantations?
By the late 1600s, colonial laws increasingly made slavery last for this length of time.
What is for life?
This agreement says people give government power in exchange for protection of their rights.
What is the social contract?
This deadly confrontation between British soldiers and colonists became powerful anti-British propaganda.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Name the three natural rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Geography caused colonial economies to develop differently because regions had different climates, soil, and these.
What are natural resources/geographic conditions?
As the supply of white indentured servants declined, plantation owners increasingly turned to this labor system.
What is Enslaved Africans/Chattel Slavery?
The first legislative body in Virginia that demonstrated colonial experience with representative government.
What is the House of Burgesses?
British troops were stationed in colonial cities partly because of this British policy requiring colonists to provide housing and supplies for soldiers.
This connects directly to the benchmark’s question about the circumstances leading to the Boston Massacre.
According to the Declaration of Independence, government gets its legitimate power from this group.
What is the consent of the governed / the people?
Explain why slavery became more concentrated in the Southern colonies than in New England.
Plantation agriculture and cash crops created a greater demand for labor.
Explain the connection between cash crops and the growth of slavery in the Southern colonies.
Profitable labor-intensive crops increased plantation owners’ demand for enslaved labor.
According to Enlightenment ideas, what can people do when a government fails to protect their natural rights?
Alter or abolish the government.
Why did many colonists argue that Parliament did not have the right to tax them?
Because the colonists did not have representatives in Parliament.
Enslaved petitioners used the Revolution’s language of natural rights to point out what major contradiction?
Colonists demanded freedom from Britain while denying freedom to enslaved people.