SSUSH1: Colonial Regions
These colonies developed large-scale agriculture using enslaved labor due to fertile soil and long growing seasons.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This brutal trans-Atlantic journey forcibly transported enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
Colonial protests and boycotts intensified after this tax on printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1776 document declared that governments derive power from the consent of the governed.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This rebellion by Massachusetts farmers exposed the weakness of the national government (Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
Debates over representation and slavery at the Constitutional Convention led to this compromise counting three-fifths of a state’s enslaved population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
These colonies were founded largely for religious reasons and developed town-based communities.
What are the New England Colonies?
Under this British policy, colonies were largely left alone to govern themselves before 1763.
What is Salutary Neglect?
This 1763 order prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This 1783 treaty officially ended the war and recognized American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
This compromise created a bicameral legislature with proportional and equal representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
After crossing the Delaware River on Christmas night in 1776, Washington launched a surprise attack on Hessian forces at this battle, boosting American morale and keeping the Revolution alive.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
These colonies became known for religious and ethnic diversity and strong commercial farming.
What are the Mid-Atlantic Colonies?
This religious movement challenged traditional church authority and helped unify colonists across regions.
What is the Great Awakening?
This war left Britain in debt and led to increased taxation of the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
This winter encampment helped transform Washington’s army into a disciplined force.
What is Valley Forge?
Opposition to the new Constitution led to the addition of these amendments protecting individual liberties and limiting federal power.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Fear of a strong central government led this group to oppose the Constitution until protections for individual rights were guaranteed.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This economic system required colonies to provide raw materials to the mother country in exchange for finished goods.
What is mercantilism?
This describes the variety of English, African, Dutch, German, and Scots-Irish settlers in the colonies.
What is cultural diversity?
Groups like the Sons of Liberty formed to oppose these British efforts to tax and punish the colonies.
What are the Intolerable Acts and taxation policies?
Control of the Chesapeake Bay, British overextension, and coordinated French-American strategy combined to produce victory at this decisive battle.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Federalists argued in this collection of essays that separation of powers and federalism would prevent tyranny.
What are The Federalist Papers?
Control of rivers at Saratoga, surprise at Trenton, and naval dominance at Yorktown demonstrate the importance of this factor in American victory.
What is geography?
This triangular system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the exchange of goods and enslaved labor.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This was one major contribution of enslaved Africans to colonial life beyond labor.
What are agricultural techniques / rice cultivation / foodways / architecture?
This Enlightenment idea justified colonial resistance by arguing that governments derive power from the consent of the governed.
What are natural rights (social contract theory)?
This 1777 American victory convinced France that the colonies could defeat Britain, leading to a formal military alliance that shifted the balance of the war.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This 1787 law established a process for admitting new states and prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
From colonial resistance to parliamentary taxation to the creation of checks and balances in the Constitution, American political development centered on preventing this concentration of authority.
What is centralized (unlimited) power?
(accept: What is tyranny?)