Unit 1
These were the three reasons explorers began to enter the "new world."
Gold, Glory, and God
These are the four New England Colonies
What is New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut?
This was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence..
Announce to the world they are separating from Britain
Explain + Justify why colonists are separating
The first English settlement in America
What is Jamestown?
The Southern Colonies were dependent on these crops.. (name two)
cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo
This was the first battle of the American Revolution between British troops and the militiamen.
What is the Battle of Lexington?
These are the Three Sisters crops that are planted together in a shared space:
maize, beans, and squash
This is the name of the treaty that ended the Seven-Year War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
What was the Shay's Rebellion?
Armed uprising in Western Massachusetts state due to the government's increased efforts to collect taxes.
Define Mercantilism
economic concept in which a “mother country” creates colonies with the purpose of obtaining raw materials from such colonies for the mother country’s benefit
Define the Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation was a law that forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachian mountains.
Thomas Paine's Common Sense advocated for..
independence from Great Britain.
acts passed by Parliament to regulate colonial trade, restricting colonial exports to only Great Britain.
What is the Navigation Acts?
Name three acts imposed by the British
Stamp, Sugar, Quartering, Townshend, Declaratory Act etc.
First written plan of government where more power was given to states.
What is the Articles of Confederation?