Exploration
Convert the natives to Catholicism and find gold
What is reasons for Spanish colonization
Rocky soil with long cold winters
What is the climate of the New England Colonies?
Colonist created their own government where they elected leaders.
What is representative government?
Economic system practiced in England that required colonies to make money for their mother country by selling raw materials and buying back manufactured goods.
What is mercantilism?
Prohibited colonist from moving west of the Appalachian mountains. Ordered by King George to settle disputes between the Natives and colonist after the French and Indian war.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Participate in fur trade
What is French reasons for colonization?
Large plantations and slave labor
What is the economy of the southern colonies?
What is reasons for the growth of representative government?
The king of England didn't pay much attention to the colonies in North America.
What is salutary neglect?
An altercation that occurred in Boston between colonist and British Soldiers resulting in 5 dead colonist. Crispus Attucks was one of the casualties. This act was used a propaganda.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Practice mercantilism and escape religious persecution
What is English reasons for colonization
What is the Middle Colonies?
Pilgrims landing in Massachusetts signed a contract promising to follow established rules since they were outside of their charter.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
King George's punishment after the Boston Tea Party. Shut down Boston Harbor, no town meetings.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
Colonist protest response to the Sugar and Stamp Act. (Hint - refusing to support (buy) goods)
Find land for profit and trade
What is the plantation system?
The first legislative body in the colonies
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
The phrase the colonist created to communicate their unhappiness with not having a voice in parliament.
Protest group that organized the Boston Tea Party and other protests in the colonies. The Boston chapter was founded by Samuel Adams.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
Colonist could only sell and buy from Great Britain by law
Navigation Acts
Provided an inexpensive labor source to plantation owners.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
First written constitution in America
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
The sugar act, stamp act, Townshend act and Tea act - The colonist will pay for the debt.
What is the economic policies following the French and Indian war?
Document written in 1689 that gave individual rights such as trial by jury and trial with witnesses to British citizens. Colonist believed there rights were protected under this document as English Citizens.
What is the English Bill of Rights?