SSUSH1-5 (A)
Published by Benjamin Franklin in 1754, the famous "Join, or Die" cartoon showing a severed snake was created to encourage the American colonies to do this.
What is unite?
The Mayflower Compact, the House of Burgesses, and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut all established early traditions of this civic concept in America.
What is self-government?
The Great Awakening emerged as a religious movement in the 1730s and 1740s partially in reaction to this intellectual movement that emphasized reason and scientific laws.
What is the Enlightenment?
Under the Treaty of Paris in 1763, France surrendered all its North American territory, giving Britain control of land east of this geographic boundary.
What is the Mississippi River?
As a direct result of Britain’s policy of salutary neglect, the American colonies developed an aptitude for this.
What is self-governing (or self-rule)?
The British Proclamation Line of 1763 prohibited colonial expansion west of this mountain range.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
In his 1776 pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued that when threatened with tyranny and destruction, people must ultimately do this.
What is defend themselves / resist British rule?
To resist British taxes and support boycotts, this group organized public events (Spinning Bees) to produce local wool and yarn.
Who is the Daughters of Liberty?
Prior to the Battle of Trenton in December 1776, George Washington gained a strategic surprise advantage by crossing this icy river.
What is the Delaware River?
Parliament passed the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts in 1774 specifically to punish the Massachusetts Bay Colony for this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Between Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia, this colony faced the greatest geographic impediment to large-scale farming due to its rocky soil and short growing season.
What is Massachusetts?
Although it created an organized process for selling western lands, a major limitation of the Land Ordinance of 1785 was that it failed to address the claims of this group.
Who are Native Americans?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal..." is a key passage from this famous 1776 document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Differences in the economic development of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies can best be attributed to these physical factors.
What are geographic conditions?
Delivered by Jonathan Edwards in 1741, the famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is best associated with this religious revival period.
What is the First Great Awakening?
The 1777 American victory at the Battle of Saratoga proved to be the turning point of the Revolutionary War because it secured an official alliance with this European power.
What is France?
Including Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, this colonial region built its economy on fishing, lumber, and fur trading rather than cash-crop agriculture.
What are the New England Colonies?
Reflecting the colonists' fear of a tyrannical British monarchy, this first U.S. constitution deliberately created a weak central government and protected state sovereignty.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The Three-Fifths Compromise determined how enslaved populations would be counted to calculate a state's representation in this chamber of Congress.
What is the House of Representatives?
Fearing a strong federal government, this political group demanded the addition of a Bill of Rights before they would agree to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Describing sinners hanging over the pit of hell, Jonathan Edwards wrote his famous sermon primarily to urge colonists to take this action.
What is to repent their sins and seek God's forgiveness?
Championed by James Madison to address Anti-Federalist concerns, the primary purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect individual liberties from overreach by this.
What is the government?
In his 1701 "Charter of Privileges," William Penn promoted individual rights by declaring that privileges and liberties belonged to this group of people.
Who are all inhabitants of the colony?
When Thomas Paine published Common Sense in January 1776, this foundational document had not yet been created.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
As the population of enslaved Africans grew in the colonies following their initial arrival in Virginia, colonial legislatures responded by passing these restrictive legal measures.
What are slave codes?