Exploration
What are the "three G's" of why Europeans explored the Americas?
Gold, God, and Glory
First attempt at self-government in the New World?
Mayflower Compact
A group formed to resist British taxes
Sons/Daughters of Liberty
Why did the British Empire have debt after 1763?
French and Indian War
First battle of the Revolution
Lexington & Concord
This crop saved Jamestown
Tobacco
What religion did William Penn follow?
Quakers
What is an accurate name for the list below:
Stamp Act
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
French and Indian War
Causes of the American Revolution
Colonists were angry because the British ended its policy of _______ _______ after the French and Indian War
Salutary Neglect
The turning point of the war
Battle of Saratoga
The exchange of diseases, goods, and ideas across the atlantic.
Columbian Exchange
John Winthrop
Claimed that the colonists could go west of the Appalachian Mountains even though the British controlled that land
Proclamation of 1763
What was the MAIN purpose of the Sugar Act?
Enforce smuggling laws
What was Thomas Paine's reasoning behind writing Common Sense?
The colonies were too far away to govern
The idea of selling more than you buy
Mercantilism
Two examples of Representative Government in the colonies
House of Burgesses, Town Meetings
What was the purpose of the Tea Act? (Not to tax tea)
To help the East India Company
5 colonists died in this. Sensationalized by the propaganda.
Boston Massacre
Which European nation allied itself with the colonists
France
Why did the colonists go from using Natives for labor to using enslaved Africans?
Disease killed a lot of natives.
The first written constitution in the New World
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
This was a slogan that was popular in the colonies after 1763, "No Taxation Without Representation!" What didn't the colonists have representation in?
Parliament
Taxed Paper, Paint, Glass, and Tea
Townshend Acts
Last battle of the war
Yorktown