Colonial America
This economic system required colonies to provide raw materials and trade mainly with their mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor during this famous protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These two battles marked the beginning of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
John Locke argued that people possess the natural rights of life, liberty, and this.
What is property?
He commanded the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
This crop became an important cash crop in the Southern Colonies.
What is tobacco?
Britain passed these laws to punish Massachusetts following the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This American commander led the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
This 1620 document established the idea that colonists could govern themselves through majority rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He is considered one of the founders of the United States Navy.
Who is John Paul Jones?
This labor system expanded as Southern plantations produced large amounts of cash crops.
What is enslaved labor?
Colonial leaders responded to the Intolerable Acts by meeting at this gathering to discuss unified resistance.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This American victory convinced France to support the American cause.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This representative body established in Virginia allowed elected representatives to participate in government.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This document states that people possess unalienable rights, including the pursuit of happiness.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Southern Colonies developed plantation agriculture partly because of these two geographic advantages.
What are a warm climate and long growing season?
This British tax led colonists to argue that taxes should not be imposed without their consent or representation.
What is the Stamp Act?
This was the last major battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The First Great Awakening encouraged representative government because its emphasis on equality caused colonists to question this.
What is authority?
During the Battle of Yorktown, American and French forces surrounded the army of this British general.
Who is General Cornwallis?
Explain one way mercantilism created tension between Great Britain and its American colonies.
Britain restricted colonial trade, preventing colonists from freely trading with many foreign countries
Explain how the Boston Tea Party demonstrated civil disobedience.
Colonists deliberately resisted British policies and taxes as a form of protest.
This 1783 agreement officially recognized the United States as free and independent from Great Britain.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
Give two reasons representative government grew in the colonies.
Geographic distance from England and colonists maintaining English political traditions.
According to the Treaty of Paris of 1783, Great Britain recognized the United States as these two things.
What are free and independent states?