Causes of the Revolution
This law prohibited colonists from expanding their settlements past the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This was the first settlement founded in the Virginia colony for PROFIT in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact.
What is a Social Contract?
When the was Declaration of Independence written.
What is July 4th, 1776?
Country that colonized for to spread the word of GOD, find GOLD and increase wealth, and obtain GLORY for their people.
What is Spain?
This act taxed manufactured goods like paint, lead, and glass.
What is the Townshend Act?
This is what different geographies lead to.
What are different economies?
This is why the colonists established self-governments/constitutions/representative governments.
What is distance from the king?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Country that settled in Louisiana and the Great Lakes region to find and trade fur.
What is France?
This chant was used in protests because the colonists were being taxed by Parliament without having anyone to represent them.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation?"
This was the first representative government formed in the colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
What are Unalienable Rights?
This country sought to increase their profits, and also sought religious freedom, and settled in the 13 colonies.
What is England?
This law forced colonists to house British soldiers in their homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
This region of colonies relied on shipbuilding, lumber, and fishing for their economy because of the rocky soil and cold climate.
What is New England?
Wrote the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
Who was Thomas Hooker?
The signer of the Declaration of Independence
Who was John Hancock?
This Southern colony was founded for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This act was passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, and closed down Boston Harbor.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This man founded the colony of Georgia for debtors, along the military border to New Spain.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
The two British documents that inspired the American Bill of Rights.
What are the English Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta?
This man was the oldest delegate at the constitutional convention, helped write the Declaration of Independence, and negotiated the Treaty of Paris.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY (not a reason for exploration): The turning point in the Revolution, gained American colonists support from France and the Marquis de Lafayette.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?