Vocabulary
A person who agreed to work for someone else for a certain period of time without pay.
What is an indentured servant?
(1722 — 1803) A political leader during the American Revolution who helped organize resistance to the British.
Who is Samuel Adams?
The first assembly of elected representatives in North America. The House of Burgesses met to create laws for the Virginia colony.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses
In this colony, the rich soil was great for farming. Winters were shorter and less harsh than in New England. Together these things made farming easier. Also, some areas were useful as ports, which made it easy for colonists to ship goods.
What are the Middle Colonies?
The British wanted the colonists to pay for this, Parliament passed new taxes, including the 1765 Stamp Act, which forced colonists to pay a tax on most printed items. Most colonists were furious.
What is the French and Indian War?
(1770) A conflict between British soldiers and a group of American colonists in March 1770 in which the soldiers shot and killed five colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards were key figures in this colonial movement.
What is the Great Awakening?
The group of people in the British government who make the country's laws.
Who is Parliament?
In this colony, lumber and iron were important resources. Factories were built to turn iron into other products. The rich soil let settlers grow large amounts of crops.
What are the Middle Colonies?
When the Tea Act was passed, this company was given the right to ship tea to the American colonies without having to pay special fees.
What is the British East India Company?
An agreement, signed in 1620, that established a government for the new colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
People who belong to a Christian religious group that believes in peace and the equality of all people.
Who are the Quakers?
A government in which the citizens elect people to represent them.
What is representative government?
In these colonies, plantations grew valuable crops like cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo. These could be shipped to England or traded with other colonies.
What are the Southern colonies?
Laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the colonies, particularly Massachusetts, for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts or The Coercive Acts?
A religious movement in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s. It celebrated people's emotional connection to God and led to the establishment of new churches.
What is the Great Awakening?
A person who belonged to a religious group that broke away from the official Church of England in the late 1500s. Puritans believed religion should be simple and based mostly on the words of the Bible.
Who were the Separatists or Pilgrims?
An agreement, signed in 1620, that established a government for the new colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
In these colonies, rocky and thin soil made it difficult for colonists to grow food crops. Long, cold winters also made growing crops difficult. Colonists mainly relied on subsistence farming, hunting, and fishing.
What are the New England colonies?
A meeting of colonial representatives that was held in Philadelphia in 1774. The representatives discussed their complaints against the British, planned a boycott of British products, and sent a letter to the British king demanding change.
What is the First Continental Congress?
A law stating that American colonists could not move onto land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
(1738 – 1820) The king of Great Britain from 1760 through 1820. His treatment of the American colonies led to the American Revolution.
Who is George III?
The first written constitution in North America. The document protected individuals' rights and created an assembly of elected representatives.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
In these colonies, plantations grew valuable crops like cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo. These could be shipped to England or traded with other colonies.
What are the Southern colonies?
This pamphlet was published by Thomas Paine in January 1776. In it, Paine argued that it was "common sense" for the colonists to declare independence and create a democracy.
What is Common Sense?