Pre-Colonial Era
The type of economy where colonies support the mother country by supplying raw goods and materials in return for manufactured goods.
What is Mercantilism?
This term reflects the combination of different cultures, social and ethnic backgrounds that made up much of the Mid-Atlantic colonies as well the United States today.
What is diversity?
Also known as the Seven Years' War, which the British won but it broke England.
What is the French Indian War?
Washington's Crossing of the Delaware River.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
Known as the father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
Also known as the Breadbasket Colonies, this region was known for fostering the most diversity among them.
What are the Mid-Atlantic (Middle) Colonies?
In a sense, this form of self-government worked until the colonists refused to pay.
What is Salutary Neglect?
The tax the British applied to all printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
Roger Sherman was a part of these group of men that were responsible for the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Committee of Five?
These 10 parts of the Constitution provided the needed protections for individual liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This major leg of the Trans-Atlantic trade helped facilitate chattle slavery through the use of captured and enslaved Africans.
What is the Middle Passage?
This event was the result of Nathanael Bacon leading poor citizens, first against the Native American Indians and then against the Jamestown elite.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Disguised as Native Americans, The Sons of Liberty were responsible for this event in protest of the Stamp Act and other inconvenient taxes.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
The Proclamation of 1763 marked this as the cut-off region, preventing expansion or settlement west, to prevent further conflict with the Native Americans.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This fixed issues present in the Articles of Confederation.
What is the US Constitution?
Named after the king, this was the first permanent English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
This religious group still exists and we see the face of one of them often. They were primarily settled in the Pennsylvania area and supported abolition.
Who are the Quakers?
This book was written by Thomas Paine and helped sway colonists toward supporting independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
John Adams and Benjamin Franklin sought an alliance with this nation to help defeat England.
What is France?
Two weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
(Any of these):
No power to collect taxes.
No power to enforce laws.
No power to regulate foreign trade.
No executive branch.
Approval from nine states needed.
All 13 states had to approve for enactment of amendments of Articles.
Responsible for establishing the Mayflower Compact, maintaining religious intolerance and infamously related to a popular November holiday centered around the harvest and the assistance received from the native people of the land they were ill-equipped for with a harsh winter weather ahead of them.
Who are the Pilgrims?
(Name two.) These cash crops made the Southern colonies highly profitable.
Any two (2) of these:
Cotton, Tobacco, Rice, Sugar, Indigo.
The name given to identify why colonists were upset at being taxed but not represented in Parliament.
What is Taxation without Representation?
This document/agreement for peace ended both wars in 1763 and 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Debates between these two groups led to the shaping of the structure and powers of the federal government as outlined in the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?