Vocab
A specific area that shares common features, such as climate or culture
What is Region?
The writer of the declaration of independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
How many colonies were there
What is 13?
What act caused the Boston Tea Party
What is the Tea Act of 1773?
A symbol on a map that shows directions like north, south, east, and west
What is a compass rose?
An imaginary line around the middle of the Earth that divides it into the northern and southern hemispheres
What is equator?
What is July 4,1776
Who was the King of England
Who is King James I
Act that taxed paper goods
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
Materials found in nature, like water, trees, and minerals, that people use to live or make goods
What is natural resources?
Goods and services that a country sells to other countries
What is exports?
Name of the 1st congress
What is the continental congress?
What was the 1st permanent settlement
What was Jamestown, Virgina
What caused the King to impose these taxes on the colonist
What is the French and Indian War?
The act of settling in a new area and taking control of it, often by force
What is colonization?
A tax on goods brought into or sent out of a country
What is a tariff?
What are your 3 alienable rights
What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
How did each region make money
What is New England shipping?
What is Middle Colonies industry?
What is South agriculture?
What act allow British soldiers to live in colonist's homes
What is the quartering act?
A major change in government or society, often through force
What is revolution?
The exchange of goods, animals, and ideas between Europe, Africa, and the Americas after Columbus's voyages
What it is the Columbian Exchange?
Who wrote 'Common Sense'
Who is Thomas Paine?
Name all 13 colonies
What is New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virgina, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
These acts were revenge for the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable Acts
A partnership between groups or countries to work together for a common goal
What is alliance?