Colonization
Who was the first nation to settle the Americas?
Spain
What is the term used to describe when Britain left the American colonies alone.
Salutary Neglect
What event was a direct response to the Tea Act?
The Boston Tea Party
What battle is referred to as "the shot heard around the world"?
Battle of Lexington.
Who infamously betrayed the United States?
Benedict Arnold
What was the name of the first prominent British settlement in North America?
Jamestown
Describe Mercantilism.
The economic theory says that trade between the mother country and the colonies generates positive cash flow. The government uses protectionism to help boost trade.
Describe two of the intolerable acts.
Boston Port Bill: March 31, 1774, closed off the port of Boston, eliminating commerce and trade in the city.
Administration of Justice Act: May 20, 1774, granted a change of location to Great Britain or a British colony in the event of a jury trial.
Massachusetts Government Act: May 20, 1774, limited colonial power and reinstated royal governance, including outlawing freely called town meetings and elected positions.
Quartering Act: June 2, 1774, allowed new governor General Thomas Gage to house British soldiers in private homes, inns, and other buildings without permission from colonists.
Quebec Act: June 22, 1774, designated the western region north of the Ohio River as part of Quebec and made Roman Catholicism the established religion of Quebec; this upset colonial Protestants.
What was Lord Dunmore's Proclamation?
A proclamation that freed African slaves if they rose up against their Patriot masters and fought for the British.
What colony didn't show up to the First Continental Congress?
Georgia
What was one of the reason Britain settled in North America?
Looking for gold, economic opportunity, and religious freedoms.
What act greatly angered the American colonists directly after the end of the Seven Years War?
The Proclamation Line of 1763
What was the Son's of Liberty?
The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the 13 American colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.
What is the significance of the Battle of Saratoga?
The battle changed the course of the war, with the French joining as an American ally.
What was the primary weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
It couldn't raise federal taxes to pay American soldiers or fix its debts.
What happened to the British colony of Roanoke?
Nobody knows
What caused the Seven Years War to start in North America? Not what started it.
Territorial disputes between the French and British in the Ohio River Valley
What event led to the Boston Massacre?
A wig makers apprentice is struck by a British Soldier.
What was the Battle of Monmouth?
A stalemate in 90 degree weather that killed more people from heat stroke than in combat.
What was Common Sense?
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that was used as propaganda to encourage people to revolt.
What European nation first settled in what is today Delaware and New Jersey?
Sweden
What caused the Seven Years War to start in Europe?
The Prussian invasion of Saxony to preempt the Austrian invasion of Silesia. Continuation of the Austrian War for Succession.
What did the Daughters of Liberty do?
Staged boycotts of British goods.
Who was commander of the French forces in America during the war for independence?
Commander Rochambeau
What treaty ended the Seven Years War?
Treaty of Paris 1763