Happy Constitution Day!!
This was the date when the United States Constitution was signed by the 39 delegates of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
September 17, 1787
The first permanent French colony in North America
Quebec
The first permanent English settlement in North America was called THIS and was located HERE.
Jamestown, Virginia
The primary reason for the Virginia Joint Stock Company settling the British colony of Virginia in 1607 was for THIS.
Wealth/Economic Gain
Persecution and exile were common reactions towards religious ideas that challenged the belief of THIS group.
No executive branch...no power to levy taxes...no power to create a military. The national government under THIS document made it difficult to maintain peace in the newly sovereign United States.
The Articles of Confederation
The occupation that the French predominantly held during the 17th and 18th centuries in North America.
fur trading
The Puritans and Pilgrims, while having differing opinions of how to "purify" the Church of England, both ended up in America because they were feeling THIS.
Religious Persecution
Jamestown made their living by the growing of THIS cash crop.
Puritan ministers began seeing a decline in church membership, so implemented THIS which allowed partial membership to the children of established Puritans in hopes they would become full members over time.
The Half-Way Covenant
This man's Virginia Plan was one of the primary plans put forth in the beginning stages of writing the US Constitution.
James Madison
This was the contested piece of land that the British and French would go to war over in 1754.
The Ohio River Valley
This Native American leader united the Massachusetts' Native American tribes to resist the Puritan takeover of their ancestral lands.
King Philip/Metacom
This was the economic system that is based on the accumulation of gold and silver, making more on exports than spending on imports, and colonized to obtain raw materials for manufactured goods made in Europe.
Mercantilism
This conflict occurred when English settlers in the western frontier faced economic hardship and Native conflict, becoming disgruntled at the wealthy Virginian landowners.
Bacon's Rebellion
85 essays written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay under the pseudonym "Publius" that aimed to persuade voters to approve and ratify the newly drafted United States Constitution.
The Federalist Papers
This treaty ended the war fought between the British/colonies and French/Native Americans and gave the Ohio River Valley to the British.
The Treaty of Paris (1763)
Refuge for Quakers...religious tolerance...trading ports...initially fair to Natives...these are characteristics of THIS region of American colonies.
The Middle Colonies
This was the Africa to America leg of the Triangular trade that saw to the forced transport of an estimated 12.5 million enslaved Africans.
The Middle Passage
This massive religious revival swept through Britain and the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s, which featured emotional preaching, personal faith, and fanous leaders like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield.
The First Great Awakening
The promise of THIS was pivotal in convincing Anti-Federalists to adopt the US Constitution.
The Bill of Rights
This unofficial policy ended with the introduction of new taxes being implemented in the English colonies after the French & Indian War.
Salutary Neglect
All three phases of the Powhatan Wars against the Jamestown colonists took place in during THIS century.
17th Century (from 1609-1646)
These laws sought to ensure that colonial trade benefited the English economy by restricting the shipment of goods to British-built and British-owned ships in order to limit foreign competition.
The Navigation Acts
Music, dancing, and basket-weaving were different examples of culture introduced during the 1600s and 1700s by THIS group of people.
African slaves