Key terms 1
Key Terms 2
Growth
Battles
Independence
100
triangular trade
What is a complex web or shipping routes?
100
Loyalists
What are the people called who were loyal to Britain?
100
Farming
What was the main economic activity in America?
100
Lexington and Concord
What are the battles that began North America's road to Independence?
100
Proclamation of 1763
What halted the settler's Westward expansion?
200
mercantilism
What is a nation's power depends on expanding its trade and earning profit from its colonies?
200
Patriots
What are the people called that were loyal to North America?
200
John and Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson
Who were the greatest leaders in America?
200
Paul Revere and William Dawes
Who rode through the night to warn Concord and Lexington townspeople?
200
Taxation without Representation
What was tax on colonist who could not vote on Parliament?
300
writs of assistance
What is a legal document that enabled the officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled?
300
guerrilla warfare
What is a sudden ambush?
300
Stamp Act
What placed a tax on all printed materials in colonies?
300
Thomas Jefferson
What is chosen to write the document?
300
Revolutionary War
What was a long fought war with Great Britain for the colonist independence?
400
boycott
What is refusing to buy?
400
republic
What is a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives?
400
The Articles of Confederation
What was the first Constitution called?
400
Seven Years' War
What was called the French and Indian War?
400
Fur trade and rights to North Atlantic fishing areas
What the nations clashed over?
500
militias
What is a group of citizen soldiers?
500
Federalists
What are people who supported the Constitution?
500
Treaty of Paris
What recognized the United States as an independent nation?
500
Long winters and rocky soil
What made farming difficult in New England?
500
Great Britain and France
What are the two major powers in North America?
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