Colonial Reigons
The region featured rocky soil, dense forests, cold climates, and long, harsh winters.
What is New England Colonies?
This 1765 tax placed a direct tax on items such as newspapers and legal documents.
What was the Stamp Act?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should break away from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
This first national plan of government gave most power to the states.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This first Secretary of the Treasury supported a stronger national government.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This English settlement, founded in 1607, became England’s first permanent colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This Boston protest involved colonists dumping tea into the harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This document announced that the colonies were independent from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Under the Articles, the national government could not do this to raise money from the states.
What is collect taxes?
This leader favored farming and stronger state governments.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This crop helped Virginia’s economy grow and made plantation labor more important
What is tobacco?
Parliament passed these harsh laws to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
This author of the Declaration argued that people have natural rights, including life and liberty.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This Massachusetts uprising raised fears that the weak national government could not maintain order.
What was Shays’ Rebellion?
Hamilton supported this institution to help manage the nation’s money and strengthen the economy.
What is a national bank?
This English colony was founded by Separatist Pilgrims seeking religious freedom.
What is Plymouth?
This war between Britain and France helped Britain gain territory but left it with large debts.
What was the French and Indian War?
The Declaration says governments get their power from this group.
Who are the people?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Delegates met in this city in 1787 to write a new plan of government.
What is Philadelphia?
Hamilton favored an economy based on manufacturing, while Jefferson believed the country should mainly support this activity.
What is farming or agriculture?
These three broad colonial regions were New England, the Middle Colonies, and this region, where plantation agriculture was common.
What is the Southern Colonies?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This 1774 gathering of colonial delegates organized a unified response to British policies.
What was the First Continental Congress?
The Declaration’s statement of equality conflicted with the continued existence of this system in the colonies.
What is slavery?
This agreement created a two-house Congress, with equal state representation in the Senate and population-based representation in the House.
What was the Great Compromise?
Hamilton favored a broad reading of the Constitution, while Jefferson favored this kind of reading that limited the federal government to powers specifically stated.
What is a strict interpretation?