Early Colonies
Government
Movements of the 1700s
Road to Revolution
Miscellaneous
100
Why did the population of Jamestown plummet between 1609 and the spring of 1610?
What is famine, disease, and a harsh winter killed many in the colony?
100
When the Pilgrims came to America, they signed this document as an early attempt at self-governance in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
100
This intellectual movement promoted the idea that all human beings have natural rights of life, liberty, and property. The government must create a social contract with its people to protect these rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
How did colonists resist the English trade laws including the Navigation Acts?
Colonists smuggled tea, molasses, and rum into the colonies.
100
This legislative assembly was bicameral, which is a model for our government today.
What is the Virginia Assembly?
200
The London Company used this system to encourage the wealthy to pay for passage to Virginia by offering 50 acres of land for every passenger brought to the new colony.
What is the Headright System?
200
This reduced the power of the king and gave more power to parliament in England.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
200
Discussions about religious freedom during this movement led to discussions about political freedom which fueled the revolution.
What is the Great Awakening?
200
This tax especially upset the colonists because it was the first time the British taxed them directly rather than indirectly taxing imported goods.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
200
What effect did the Great Awakening have on colonists?
Colonists' discussions of religious freedoms prompted discussions of political freedoms and fueled the revolution.
300
Passed in Maryland, this law demonstrates the first time colonists created a protection for minority groups. The law ensured that both Catholics and Protestants of any denomination could practice their faith in the colony.
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
300
After the French and Indian War, this treaty transferred power in North America from the French to the British.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
300
What is the most significant action taken on by colonists during the French and Indian War? Why?
All colonies united under the Albany Plan to fight in the French and Indian War. The next time they would unite in this way would be to fight the American Revolution.
300
How did the Boston Massacre start?
A mob of American colonists dared the British soldiers to shoot at them.
300
This proclamation by King George III angered colonists because it prevented them from moving into territory past the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
The system of trade that existed between North America, Africa, and Europe.
What is the Triangular Trade System?
400
Name two grievances of Nathaniel Bacon
1. Bacon felt Gov. Berkley was protecting and emboldening Native Americans by refusing to seek justice for colonists who were attacked by surrounding tribes. 2. Bacon and former indentured servants wanted the opportunity to gain more land. 3. The colonists felt the taxes were unfairly high to disadvantage former indentured servants. 4. Gov. Berkley favored his friends with government positions and large estates.
400
He promoted the idea that all men have rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property.
Who is John Locke?
400
This event demonstrated how upset colonists were about the British government's refusal to offer the colonies representation in Parliament and their continued increases of tax laws and restrictions.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
In what ways were the British justified in taxing the colonists?
1. The British controlled the rights to land in North America according to the Treaty of Paris. 2. The British needed to pay off war debts accumulated during the French and Indian War to protect the colonists. 3. The British did repeal some taxes which the colonists objected to, including the Townshend Acts (taxes on glass, lead, paper.)
500
This rebellion, ending in the burning of Jamestown, represents the first time colonists joined together to protest British tax laws
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
500
List two of Nathaniel Bacon's Grievances
1. Nathaniel Bacon and former indentured servants felt Gov. Berkley emboldened Native Americans by refusing to force surrounding tribes to answer for attacks on the colonists. 2. Colonists wanted land to make a profit. 3. Colonists wanted lower taxes for former indentured servants. 4. Colonists accused Berkley of favoring his friends with government positions and large estates. 5. Gov. Berkley did not use tax money to protect colonists and make public works.
500
Why was the Enlightenment significant to the American Revolution?
Ideas which came out of the Enlightenment encouraging the development of a social contract between the government and the governed became the basis for the Revolution. Colonists demanded the kind of government that would ensure natural rights of life, liberty, and property for all citizens.
500
After the Boston Tea Party, the British passed these acts which ended Massachusetts' charter, closed Boston Harbor, and forced colonists to quarter troops in their homes.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
500
In what ways were the colonists justified in protesting British taxes?
1. Colonists who fought in the French and Indian War wanted the right to expand into the Ohio River Valley past the Proclamation Line of 1763. 2. Colonists had no representation in Parliament to vote on the taxes they were required to pay. 3. British troops did not leave after the French and Indian War. Their presence threatened colonial independence and suggested a military rule by the British government.
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