Long cold winters and rocky, hilly wilderness; the people built thier economy on small farms, lumbering, fishing, shipbuilding, and trade.
What is NEW ENGLAND REGION
100
A group of people who settle in a distant land but are still under the rule of the country from which they came.
What is COLONY
100
a slogan originating during the 1750s and 1760s that summarized the primary complaint of the 13 colonies.
What is "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION"
100
A series of was between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763.
What is the FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS
100
a person who helps start a colony or lives in one.
What is a COLONIST
200
Features are wide rivers and large wetlands; the soil and the hot, wet climate were ideal for growing tobacco, rice and other cash crops; plantation owners relied on indentured servants and slaves to do the work.
What is SOUTHERN COLONIES
200
factors that explain why people move.
What is PUSH/PULL FACTORS
200
Colonists who sided with Britain in the American Revolution
What is LOYALIST
200
Laws passed by parliament to control trade and shipping. All goods sent to the colonies had to be shipped to England first before so the goods could be heavily taxed before reaching the colonies. The only people who had the right to trade with the colonies had to be British citizens.
What is NAVIGATION ACTS
200
A protest against the Tea Act in which the "Sons of Liberty" boarded British tea ships and dumped a large amount of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is BOSTON TEA PARTY
300
Landforms, bodies of water, climate, natural vegetation and soil of the earth.
What is PHYSICAL FEATURES
300
A person who signed an agreement to work for a master for a period of years and were not free until they completed their contract
What is INDENTURED SERVANT
300
The set of laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
What is INTOLERABLE ACTS
300
A British law requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought newspapers, licenses, and legal documents.
What is STAMP ACT
300
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire.
What is NEW ENGLAND REGION
400
Rich soil on the coast; vallyes and wooded mountains; farmers in the region raised crops and livestock. Economy was based on lumbering, shipbuilding.
What is MIDDLE COLONIES
400
The first colony in America; set up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia.
What is JAMESTOWN
400
law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies; led to the Boston Tea Party.
What is TEA ACT
400
a nonviolent protest in which people refuse to buy products or use services.
What is BOYCOTT
400
a person who owes somthing to another person
What is DEBTOR
500
A mountain range in eastern North America that stretches from Quebec to Alabama.
What is APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
500
Large farms, susually in a warm climate, on which the farms workers live; grow cash crops like tobacco, sugar, cotton.
What is PLANTATION
500
These laws placed new taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea.
What is TOWNSEND ACTS
500
Colonists who fought for independence from Britain during the American Revolution
What is a PATRIOT
500
A number of people that are thought of as a group because they are alike in certain ways