Triangular Trade
Establishing Early Colonies
Fight For Independence
Shaping A New Republic
Miscellaneous
100
3 crops or resources that were being traded.
What is Rum, Textiles, Oil, Tobacco, Cotton, Cattle, Sheep, Horses, Pigs, and Slaves?
100
An assembly of representatives, usually of an entire nation, that makes laws.
Parliament
100
Laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
100
Document declaring the 13 colonies independent from Britain and part of the new Sovereign United States of America.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
The first permanent colony in the U.S.
What is the Jamestown colony?
200
A disease that was spread by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
Smallpox, Influenza, Typhus, Measles, Malaria, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria.
200
A member of a group of Protestants within the Church of England, demanded, the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline.
What is a Puritan?
200
Why was Thomas Paine's Common Sense pamphlet important?
Mass produced and available for the general public. It lead to the Declaration of Independence, which the Second Continental Congress wrote and signed into law later that year. Common Sense helped by creating mass support for the American Revolution
200
Wanted to establish a Bank of the US, pay off the war debt, and add tariffs.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
200
This War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies.
The French and Indian War or 7 Years War
300
A nation should export more than it imported and accumulate bullion to make up the difference. Exportation of finished goods favored.
What is Mercantilism?
300
Act of the Congress of Confederation creating the first organized territory from lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains .
Northwest Ordinance
300
2 Causes of the American Revolution
Enlightenment Ideas, High Taxes, Unequal Treatment, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, The Continetal Congress, Battle of Lexington and Concord,
300
Powers and responsibilities are divided among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
What is the Seperation of Powers?
300
This letter written by the first President as a valedictory to "friends and fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States. He wrote it near the end of his second term of presidency before retiring to his home at Mount Vernon in Virginia.
What is George Washington's Farewell Address?
400
An effect of Triangular Trade on Africa.
1. Communities were devastated, the population declined, families were torn apart, and slave trading wars claimed even more African lives.
2. Societal fabric was destroyed, between 10-15 million Africans were sent to the New World, and the rise of African state banks occurred.
3. Young, healthy Africans were sent to the New World, a smallpox epidemic further decreased the population, and Africa began growing coffee.
4.Ten to twenty percent of Africans on the Middle Passage died due to inhumane conditions, West Africa became a trading post for corn and wheat, and wars for colonial control began.
400
Legal system used by the Spanish crown during colonization to regulate Native-Americans and reward Spaniards.
Encomienda System
400
This formal female association that was formed in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act, and later the Townshend Acts, and was a general term for women who identified themselves as fighting for liberty during the American Revolution.
What is the Daughters of Liberty?
400
This important document in U.S. history starts "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity"
What is the U.S. Constitution?
400
Settled the issue over representatives and taxation of free and enslaved persons.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
500
A business entity where different stakes can be bought and owned by shareholders.
What is a Joint-Stock Company?
500
Transplanting British society onto new regions/ peoples.
What is Anglicization?
500
A group of rebels against Massachusetts courts and later the United States' Federal Armory in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry and overthrow the government.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
500
A concept that deals with the role of women and their duties to both family and country at the time of the American Revolution.
What is Republican Motherhood?
500
Legal and military customs that structured society around holding land in exchange for service and labor.
What is Fuedalism?