Colonial Figures
The author of the pamphlet Common Sense
Thomas Paine
Disputes over land in the region known as the Ohio River Valley was the cause of which conflict?
French and Indian War
Thomas Paine wrote this to convince American colonists to support independence from Great Britain
Common Sense
The name of the economic system used by the British and other European countries that allowed them to profit off of owning colonies in North America.
Mercantilism
The author of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
With whom did the Native Americans mostly side with during the French and Indian War?
French
Influenced by Enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke, this founding document states that for a government to be legitimate, its powers must come from "the consent of the governed".
Declaration of Independence
The plantation economy (growing cotton and tobacco) existed primarily in which colonial region?
Southern Colonies
A famous member of the revolutionary group the Sons of Liberty. He is also known for the well known engraving of the Boston Massacre
Paul Revere
The French and Indian War was a war fought between which groups?
The British against the French and Native Americans
One of many excise taxes imposed by the British, this tax was placed on all paper goods printed in the colonies, such as newspapers, licenses, and playing cards.
The Stamp Act
What is one difference between indentured servitude and slavery?
indentured servants chose to work while slavery was forced labor
indentured servants had limited contracts of 3-7 years while slavery was for life
indentured servants were primarily European/white while slaves were black people from Africa
other correct answers taken
Gained military fame as a general in the French and Indian War
George Washington
This law was passed by British Parliament to reduce conflict between American colonists and the Native Americans after the French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
The British used this mountain range as a boundary to restrict colonial access to western lands with the Proclamation of 1763.
Appalachian Mountains
The geography and environment of which colonial region allowed them to focus mostly on trade, shipping, and fishing?
New England Colonies
Promoted the idea of colonial unity by publishing the popular political cartoon Join or Die and proposing the Albany Plan of Union
What is one way Native Americans were negatively impacted by European settlement in North America?
Food shortages, environmental destruction, forced migration, population decline due to disease, starvation, and violence/conflict with Europeans.
Other correct responses may be given
The Mayflower Compact (1620), New England Town Hall Meetings, and the Virginia House of Burgesses were two early examples of ______ in the colonies.
Self-government; representative government; democracy; other correct answers accepted
What was the primary reason colonists were angered by the taxes imposed on them by the British?
There was no colonial representation in parliament; no taxation without representation