Key Terms
The study of the physical features of the earth and how they impact human activity.
What is geography?
Settlers to New England colonies came for this reason.
What is religious freedom?
This event led to the shift from indentured servitude to race-based chattel slavery in America.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Early forms of self-government in the colonies.
What are the House of Burgesses and the Mayflower Compact?
This law, a result of the French and Indian War, prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Government for the people, by the people.
What is Democracy?
Called the "breadbasket" for its grain, this region also exported furs, skins, cattle, and iron.
What is the Middle Colonies?
War debt, the Proclamation of 1763 and a growing push for American independence were the result of this event.
What is the French and Indian War (7 Years War)?
Thomas Paine's popular pamphlet that provided the justification for independence.
What is Common Sense?
A series of mercantilist laws established by Parliament restricting colonial trade to benefit England.
What is the Navigation Acts?
Economic system that increases the wealth of the mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
A plantation-based economy developed here due to warm climate, flat plains and fertile soil.
What is the Southern Colonies?
This act of rebellion led to the Intolerable Acts, which shut down Boston Harbor and increased the number of troops there.
The Boston Tea Party
Americas first Constitution.
What is The Articles of Confederation?
These acts introduced taxes on a variety of goods including: tea, paper, glass, lead and paint.
What is the Townshend Acts?
The branch of government that makes laws.
What is the legislative branch (aka Congress)?
Cold with rocky soil this region's economy was built off the woods and the ocean- including Fishing, Timber, Ship-building.
What is the New England Colonies?
The battle cry of the colonies, which named their demands and justification for rebellion.
What is, "No taxation without representation"?
The Declaration of Independence states "all men are created equal", but these groups were excluded from self-governing.
What are African-Americans, Indigenous (Native) Americans and women?
A series of laws requiring colonies to provide housing, food and supplies to British troops.
An activist whose cause was to end the practice of slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
Unlike New Englanders, colonists settled the Middle and Southern colonies for this reason.
What is financial opportunities/profit?
Without the aid of the French, Americans would not have been able to defeat Great Britain in this war.
What is the American Revolutionary War/ American Revolution?
States held most of the power; Congress could not regulate trade, tax, raise an army or pass legislation without 3/4 states approval.
What are the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
In response to the Boston Tea Party, it: closed Boston Harbor, increased the number of troops, took over local government, and expanded the Quartering Act.
What is the Intolerable Acts?