What event was considered an act of civil disobedience where colonist dumped British imported tea into the Boston harbor?
The Boston Tea Party
William Penn was a ________, a member of a small Protestant sect that taught that all people are equal
Quaker
This marked the end of French power in North America.
Treaty of Paris
What were the names of the colonists that favored war against Britain?
Patriots
What is the name for mapmakers who produced more accurate maps and sea charts?
cartographers
_________ got their name because they kept their muskets at hand and were prepared to fight at a minute's notice?
Minutemen
What were the four middle colonies?
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
What confrontation occurred when British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.
What was the name of American colonists who remained loyal to Britain?
Loyalists
The Columbian Exchange was the mixing of cultures that began with the voyages of Columbus. What were three things that resulted from the Columbian Exchange?
New products and ideas, diseases, and the growth of slavery
What marked the end of French power in North America. By its terms, Britain gained Canada and all French lands east of the Mississippi River, except for New Orleans?
The Treaty of Paris
What were the five southern colonies?
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
What was the purpose of the committees of correspondence?
To keep other colonies updated on the events that were occurring in Boston.
What is the name of the introduction of the Declaration of Independence?
Preamble
What was an economic policy that held the nation's wealth and was measured by its supply of gold and silver?
Mercantilism
What is an economic system in which people put money, or capital, into a business in order to make a profit.
Capitalism
Thinkers that believed that all problems could be solved by human reason considered themselves ______.
Enlightened
What act imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London?
The Stamp Act
What are the three main parts of the Declaration of Independence?
Unalienable Human Rights, Colonial Grievances, and Independence
What period in European history resulted in many new discoveries in art, medicine, and science?
the Renaissance
The House of Burgesses marked the start of ________ a political system in which voters elect others to make laws.
Representative government
Montesquieu suggested that government should be divided into three branches of government. What are the three branches of government?
Legislative, judicial, and executive
What saying did the colonists use in order to show that the Stamp Act taxes were unjust and unnecessary?
"No taxation without representation!"
What two countries helped lead America toward victory in the American Revolution?
Spain and France
King James I of England granted a group of investors, known as the Virginia Company, a charter to set up a colony in North America. The settlers started the ___________ in Virginia.
Jamestown Colony