Living off the Land
Tobacco, cotton, indigo and rice are examples of these.
What are cash crops?
Because of the rocky soils, farms in New England tended to be this.
What is small?
He was commissioned to lead the Continental Army during the Revolution.
Who was George Washington?
The first shots of the American Revolution were fired here.
What is Lexington, Massachusetts?
This geographic feature was the boundary used by King George III in his Proclamation of 1763.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The Spanish began importing slaves to the Caribbean to work these large farms.
What are sugar plantations?
Colonies in America used the profits from products sold to Europeans to purchase these from western Africa.
What are slaves?
These three wise men wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who are Thomas Jefferson, John Adams & Benjamin Franklin?
This American victory convinced the French to ally with the United States.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
What are unalienable rights?
French explorers and Native Americans worked together in this enterprise.
What is the fur trade?
Parliament used these to help pay the debt from the French and Indian War.
What are taxes?
This Englishman helped inspire a revolution with the Publication of Common Sense.
Who was Thomas Paine?
George Washington & his troops spent the Winter of 1777-1778 here.
What is Valley Forge?
Colonists protested the Stamp Act and Townsend Acts because they were examples of taxation without ____________.
What is representation.
The mild climate of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were perfect for growing this type of crop.
What are grains?
(wheat, barley, rye, oats, etc)
This system used colonies to make money for the Mother Country.
What is mercantilism?
She wrote an early history of the American Revolution.
Who was Mercy Otis Warren?
This young French aristocrat commanded American troops in battle.
Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?
He was the first man to fall at the Boston Massacre.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
These geographic features made shipbuilding, fishing, lumber milling and the fur trade possible in New England.
What are dense forests, natural harbors and swift rivers?
American rejection of Mercantilism led to the development of this economic system in the new United States.
What is Free Enterprise?
This Boston Patriot led the campaign against Taxation without Representation.
Who was Samuel Adams.
George Washington forced the British to surrender at this final major battle of the Revolution.
What was Yorktown?
Parliament passed these to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable Acts?