This two word term describing England's hands off policy towards the 13 colonies, and the colonists desire for a law making body, this is a big reason why the representative governments started in the colonies.
What is salutary neglect
100
The Spanish Conquistadors were usually exploring for this precious metal.
What is GOLD?
100
Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, Union v. Confederacy, and the siege of Vicksburg are just a few events that occurred in this era.
What is the Civil War?
100
Started a colony for Quakers to practice their religion freely.
Who is William Penn?
100
TERM: The belief the United States should extend from Atlantic to Pacific, from Sea to Shining Sea, East Coast to West Coast, Biggie to Tupac.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
this is the colonist's representative government in the colonies, they were under the royal governor.
What is a Colonial Assembly?
200
William Penn, Lord Baltimore, the Puritans, and Pilgrims left Europe for this reason.
What is escape religious persecution, religious freedom?
200
1865-1877. Mainly a time period where the united states attempted to correct the injustices of slavery with the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments, and bring the Union back together.
What is The Reconstruction Era?
200
John Smith was the leader of this colony which was widely unsuccessful until the colonists discovered that tobacco could be grown their. Established in 1607.
What is Jamestown Virginia?
200
Related to the Bill of Rights, this took away power from the King in England in 1215 and gave them to the people.
What is the Magna Carta?
300
He said that people have natural right, and its the governments job to protect those natural rights, and if the government fails, it is the colonists right to change the government.
Who is John Locke?
300
If you attempting to escape debt or a prison sentence you probably sailed to this southern colony
What is Georgia?
300
The United States just won the revolutionary war. Articles of confederation were weak, so the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia was held into to strengthen the federal government.
What is The Early Republic Era?
300
This was a person who rejected the Church of England and settle in Massachusetts in 1620.
What is a Pilgrim?
300
This was a binding agreement that the men that sailed to Plymouth Massachusetts in 1620 signed in order to make sure their colony had laws and structure.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
This is the first representative assembly of the new world was formed in 1619.
What is the House of burgesses?
400
New York, Virginia, and the Carolina's were formed for this reason.
What is Economic opportunity, to make money off the land
400
This Era is in between the Colonial Era and the Early Republic Era, it includes people like George Washington, King Geroge III, Marquis Lafayette, Lord Cornwallis, and of course the French Army helped out.
What is the Revolutionary Era?
400
He drove the Dutch out of New Netherland and re-named the colony after himself after he became the proprietary owner.
Who is the Duke of York?
400
This is the exchange of living things between the western to the eastern hemisphere. It included plants, animals, and Diseases!!!
What is The Colombian Exchange?
500
This is considered the first american constitution. Also served as the Connecticut puritan's representative government.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
500
While this wasn't a actual reason for colonization or exploration it was the the reason Africans came to the American colonies.
What is Slavery?
500
This is the Era before the Civil War. The nation's union was slowly being divided by the issue of slavery and the south accusation of not having enough state's right. This era ended after President Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860.
What is the Antebellum Era?
500
Founder of the Georgia Colony. He created the colony as a refuge for debtors but it was also used by fugitive and the military to protect the 13 colonies from Spanish Florida.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
500
This is a Economic System, where a country must keep a favorable balance of trade, and where the colonies served as financial source to benefit the mother country