Colonial Geography
Geographic feature good for shipbuilding and trading.
What are natural harbors.
The economic system between Britain and it's colonies.
What is Mercantilism?
Britain's enemies during the French and Indian War.
Who are the French and Native Americans?
One reason American colonists are angry in 1763.
1715-1789- A time intellectual and philosophical movement that challenged old ideas in Europe.
What is the Enlightenment?
How colonists dyed their clothes blue.
What is indigo?
The breadbasket of the American Colonies.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Indigo, cotton, rice, and tobacco are examples of these grown in the Southern colonies.
What are cash crops?
Wanted to help England because they still saw themselves as British citizens.
Who are the colonists?
Colonist's reaction to Britain's Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
An Enlightenment thinker who believed all men are born with the right to "Life, Liberty and Property".
Who is John Locke?
Before there was the United States Congress, Virginia had this form of representative government.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This geographic feature was the western border of the American colonies.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
England depended on the colonies for these two reasons.
Winner of the French and Indian War.
Who is England?
British solider's would search colonists homes with out their consent.
What are writs of assistance?
All men are born with unalienable rights; rights that cannot be taken away.
What are natural rights?
Wanted to get to the New World but didn't have enough money or had to pay off a debt, so they signed a contract.
Who are Indentured Servants?
Trade between Europe, Africa and North America.
What is the Triangular Trade?
The labor force used by Southern Planters to maximize profits.
What is 1) The Proclamation Line of 1763 and 2) large debt?
A letter to the world letting them know the American Colonies are now independent of Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Inspired by Enlightenment Thinkers and ideas to write the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Colonial journalist who criticized the British government, was charged and acquitted; is the reason we have Freedom of the Press.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
The disputed territory during the French and Indian War. (Disputed = fought over)
What is the Ohio River Valley?
A British policy of ignoring the colonies and allowing illegal trade. This ended in 1763.
What is Salutary Neglect?
Established a western boundary, that the colonists did not like, along the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
The democratic rally cry of the American Revolution.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
Enlightenment Philosophers (thinkers) and their ideas directly challenged the teachings of this religious institution.
Who is the Catholic Church?
In the 1700s, the triangular trade led directly to importation this labor force to the Western Hemisphere.
Who are enslaved African people?