Early Colonization
Name 3 reasons that the English colonized North America?
land, adventure, personal wealth, political freedom, English domination, national wealth, religious freedom
What is the Anglican church?
Middle Colony founded on religious freedom.
What is Pennsylvania?
Two sides of war and what they were fighting over.
Who are French and British?
What is the Ohio River Valley?
Man who originated the idea of natural rights and the social contract
Who is John Locke?
First permanent British colony in the New World
What is Jamestown?
Who were the Pilgrims?
Two main cash crops of the southern colonies.
What are tobacco and rice? (indigo also acceptable)
Benjamin Franklin's proposal for colonies to unite under one government to help fight the French in the war.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
Last effort by colonists to preserve their relationship with England.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
First representative government in the New World.
What is the House of Burgesses?
First document of self-government in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
First law of religious freedom passed in the colonies and which colony it was passed in.
What is the Act of Toleration in Maryland?
Who are Loyalists?
Group of Indians who lived near the Jamestown colony
Who are the Powhatan?
Group escaping religious persecution who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who are the Puritans?
How William Penn established a good relationship with the Native Americans in his colony.
What is buying the land from them instead of taking it by force?
Act passed after the French and Indian war to prevent colonists from having more conflict with the Native Americans.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Name 2 of the 3 accomplishments of the 2nd Continental Congress.
What is created the Continental army, appointed George Washington as commander of the army and sent Olive Branch Petition to King George?
What was the effect of crops being grown and put in common storehouse for everyone to share in Jamestown? Who fixed the problem?
What is the Shortage of food.
Who was John Smith: You don't work, you don't eat!
What is the separation of church and state?
Economic system that measured wealth by how much gold and silver a nation possessed
What is mercantilism?
First direct tax on colonies to pay British war debt.
What is the Stamp Act?
Place where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were written.
What is Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA?