Colonial Foundations
What system did Britain use to control colonial trade and create a favorable balance?
Mercantilism.
What was the general climate and soil in the Northern colonies?
Answer: Cooler climate and rocky soil.
What line in 1763 limited westward colonial settlement?
Answer: Proclamation Line of 1763.
According the Declaration, from whom do governments get their just powers?
Answer: From the consent of the governed.
What were the first battles of the Revolutionary War?
Lexington & Concord
What British policy let local self-rule grow and the non-enforcement of trade laws?
Salutary Neglect
What was the most lucrative Southern cash crop from 1619 to 1783?
Answer: Tobacco.
What 1765 law taxed printed materials?
Answer: Stamp Act.
If government violates rights, what can the people do?
Answer: Alter or abolish it.
What ally joined the Americans after Saratoga?
Answer: France.
What was the first elected assembly in British North America in 1619?
Answer: House of Burgesses.
What were two main parts of the Northern economy?
Lumber, fishing and shipbuilding, small family farming.
What 1770 event left five colonists dead and was used as propaganda?
Answer: Boston Massacre.
Which Enlightenment thinker most influenced Jefferson on natural rights?
Answer: John Locke.
Where did the British surrender in 1781?
Answer: Yorktown.
What 1620 agreement set up self-government for Plymouth settlers?
Answer: Mayflower Compact.
What labor system dominated large Southern plantations by the late 1600s and 1700s?
Answer: Enslaved labor.
What 1773 protest by the Sons of Liberty destroyed British Tea
Answer: Boston Tea Party.
In Common Sense, Thomas Paine attacked what and argued for what?
Answer: Attacked monarchy and argued for independence.
What 1783 treaty ended the war and set the western boundary at the Mississippi River?
Answer: Treaty of Paris.
What system gave land to sponsors who paid a person’s passage to Virginia?
Answer: Headright system.
What local government style was common in New England?
Answer: Town meetings.
What harsh laws were passed in response to the Tea Party?
Answer: Intolerable Acts.
What 3 unalienable rights are listed in the Declaration of Independence.
rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
What barrier to settlement imposed in 1763 was removed for American settlers after the Revolutionary War?
Proclamation Line of 1763