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The 1st Permanent Colony in America
Jamestown, 1607
This geographic feature had the most significant positive influence on settlement patterns and economic development in the Northern British American colonies?
Rivers and harbors
This term refers to the time when England ignored the colonies, to the benefit of the colonies.
Salutary Neglect
During the colonial period the economic development of the South was most directly dependent on the labor of?
Enslaved Africans
This destructive protests in Boston was worth more than $4 million in todays money.
The Boston Tea Party (1773)
The theory that a nation could increase its wealth through a favorable balance of trade by establishing colonies.
Mercantilism
This geographical feature lines the western edge of the thirteen British colonies?
The Appalachian Mountains
The authors of the Declaration of Independence used the phrase “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” to identify
Natural Rights
A crop produced for money value instead of use by the grower
Cash crop
This document was approved by the Second Continental congress which we now mark as the birthdate of the United States of America.
What is the date? And who wrote this document?
July 4, 1776 and Thomas Jefferson
He argued that rulers have the authority to enforce the law only for public good.
John Locke
This heading best completes the partial outline below?
1._________________________
A. House of Burgesses
B. Mayflower Compact
C. New England town meetings
Colonial Efforts at self government.
American colonists showed their opposition to the British taxation and trade restrictions of the 1760s primarily by?
Boycotting products
Colonists boycotted buying newspapers and playing cards in response to what act?
The Stamp Act
Which country ended up winning the French and Indian War also known as The Seven Years' War?
Britain and Native American allies
_______ restricted the rights of American Colonist in Boston, Massachusetts following the Boston Tea Party
Coercive Acts also known as the Intolerable Acts
This development such as the New England town meetings and the establishment of the Virginia House of Burgesses represented?
Steps in the growth of representative democracy
According to the Declaration of Independence, the main purpose of government is to do what?
Protect people’s natural rights.
One reason traditions of self-government developed in the American colonies before the French and Indian War was that the British?
Practiced salutary neglect in the colonies
The Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights were significant influences on United States constitutional development because they
Placed limits on the powers of the government
The _________ prohibited Americans from settling West of the Appalachian Mountains
Proclamation of 1763
During the 1600s and 1700s the fundamental goal of British mercantilism was to?
Maintain a favorable balance of trade for Great Britain with its colonies.
The British promoted the policy of mercantilism to?
Control the commerce of their American colonies
During the early 1770s, how did the British government respond to increasing American protests of British colonial policy?
It increased efforts to control the colonies.
______ ______ imported from England made up two-thirds of settlers. At first many died before gaining freedom.
Indentured servants