America Governs Itself
The first attempt at government was called the _____ of ________. It was created to provide a system to help the colonies in times of war.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
British victory in the French and Indian War, led to an increase in taxation in the American colonies because the British had to pay ________.
What is debts they owed from the cost of the French & Indian War?
_____ _____ helped lead the Jamestown colony to ensure the colonists' survival by negotiating treaties with the Powhatan tribes.
Who is John Smith?
European diseases like smallpox negatively effected the Native American populations.
What is 90% of the population was killed because they did not have immunity to European diseases?
The Battle of ______ _____ proved that fighting the Revolutionary War would not be easy for Great Britain.
What is Bunker Hill?
The ______ Plan of Union served to unify the colonies while the Articles of Confederation was being written.
What is Albany?
______ neglect led colonists to rebel against Great Britain because new tax policies were forced on the people living in the colonies.
What is salutary?
Roger Williams founded the colony of _____ _____ after he fled the Massachusettes colony over his unaccepted religious beliefs.
What is Rhode Island?
True or False: Native Americans relied on European technology and weapons for their own survival.
True
The battles of ____ and _____ convinced the Second Continental Congress to declare independence from Great Britain.
What are Lexington & Concord?
The _____ branches of government system came from Montesquieu's "The Spirit of Laws".
What is 3?
The Declaration of Independence argues that leaders who are motivated by personal interests are not fit to _______________.
What is represent and protect the natural rights of citizens?
The ______ colonies allowed single men to start a new life with job opportunities in the shipping and iron industries.
A. New England
B. Middle
C. Southern
What is B (middle)?
Indigenous (original) natives and Europeans both gained access to new products like ____ _, _____, and ______ as a result of the Columbian Exchange.
What is the wheel, fruits/vegetables, and horses?
The country of ______ signed an alliance with the Continental Army to fight against Great Britain.
What is France?
John Locke's "Two Treatises of Civil Government" inspired the principal of _____ ______, which caused colonists to argue against the tyrannous British government.
What are natural rights?
Colonial protest to the ________ of 1763 resulted from the rejection of colonial expansion west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
List 3 industries that were successful in the Southern colonies.
What is rice, cotton, and tobacco?
Mississippian, Adena, and Hopewell native cultures built _____.
What are mounds from earth and dirt?
The Battle of _____ gave colonial soldiers the hope to keep fighting against the British.
What is Saratoga?
Sir Edward Coke's "Laws of England" was an influencing source for writing the ____ __________.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The _____ Act was another British tax that forced colonists to protest at the Boston Tea Party in 1773, by dumping English tea in the Boston Harbor.
What is the Tea Act?
Name 3 reasons why the British colonies were established in North America.
What is religious freedom, new jobs, & obtain land?
Native Americans who lived in the ______ lived on small farming communities.
A. Northwest
B. Southwest
C. Plains
What is B (the Southwest)?
The significance of the Battle of Yorktown was _______?
What is the final battle of the American Revolution, in a victory against Great Britain?