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The term for an agricultural product that is grown for its commercial value, for example sugar or tobacco.
What is a cash crop?
What is the Boston Massacre?
The document written by the Second Continental Congress that is commemorated on July 4 every year.
What is the declaration of independence?
The Spanish priest who wrote about the poor treatment of Native Americans by the Spanish conquistadors.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?
This organization was formed to coordinate boycotts of British goods, they also led protests, and posted notices against the British.
What were the Sons of Liberty?
This was the rallying cry of the colonists who resisted the increase in taxes after the Seven Years' War.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
This event in 1773 saw the destruction of a shipload of tea in the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This book written by Thomas Paine made a case for colonists to join the cause for independence from the British.
What is "Common Sense"?
This committee was formed so that colonies could unite around their resistance to the British taxation acts.
What is the The Committee of Correspondence
This was the economic system of the 16th-18th centuries in Europe which emphasized maintaining a positive trade balance and encouraged colonization.
What is mercantilism?
The theory that members of parliament represented all people in the British empire, regardless of where they were from.
What is virtual representation?
This British man was one of the first colonists of Jamestown, Virginia. He was kidnapped by the Powhatans.
Who is John Smith?
The joint stock company that funded the establishment of the colony of Jamestown, Virginia.
What is the Virginia Company?
What is the Stamp Act?
This American of African-Carribean descent is often called one of the first martyrs of the American revolution after he was killed in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This was the practice of requiring colonists to house British troops in their homes.
What is quartering?
The Native American tribe (with a chief of the same name) that negotiated with John Smith and helped save the early Jamestown colony before eventually going to war against the colonists.
Who are the Powhatans?
This organization of women organized to create homemade goods to aid in boycotting the British.
What is the Daughters of Liberty?
These Acts followed the Boston Tea Party and led to the closing of Boston harbor, limiting of colonial political power, and greater quartering of troops.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This war was fought against the British by an alliance of Native American groups of the Great Lakes region who resisted colonial expansion into their territory in the 1760s.
What is Pontiac's War?
The process of exchange of plants, animals, microbes, and people between the Old Worlds and the New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?