Colonies
This is the first permanent colonial settlement.
What is a Virginia?
This set of colonies were known for having the coldest colonial region.
What is the New England region?
a written grant of rights by the King for the creation of an organization, such as a colony
What is a royal charter?
This document is known as the first
official government of the United States
What is The Articles of Confederation?
The Constitution formed this type of government.
What is a republic?
This region’s economy was based on fishing and wood working.
What is New England?
Groups of people often do this to search for jobs, food, or refuge
What is migrate?
This required the colonists to house the British troops which saved England lots of money that they were paying to support their soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
Education was mandated under the Articles of Confederation.
True or False
What is True?
This act was so important to the colonists that when they wrote the Bill of Rights that it was included.
What is
the Quartering Act/3rd Amendment?
Examples of this is tobacco, corn and indigo.
What is cash crops?
This region is known as the “bread basket” .
What is the Middle Colonial Region?
This act was written to punish the Massachusetts colony for participating and inciting the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
States had to recognize the marriage laws of other states True or False
What is True
This amendment protects citizens from illegal searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This group consisted of a minority of farmers; however, they controlled the economy of their region.
What is the planter class?
This mountain range was considered the western front of the colonies.
What is Appalachian Mountains?
This act required that all official documents have an official seal on them to be considered legal.
What is the Stamp Act?
Under the Articles of Confederation states were allowed to enter into treaties with foreign countries.
True or False
What is true?
This amendment protects you from being charged and tried twice with the same crime.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
Craftsmen, woodworkers, fishermen and farmers formed the basis of this region’s economy.
What is the Middle Colony?
a line joining the waterfalls on numerous rivers that marks the point where each river descends from the upland to the lowland and the limit of the navigability of each river
What is fall line?
This British leader was surrounded by the French fleet and Washington’s troops when he surrendered, which ended the American Revolution.
What is the General Cornwallis?
This event led the country to realize that the Articles of Confederation made the central government too weak to be able to handle a crisis.
What is Shay’s Rebellion?
Citizens have the right to a trial with an impartial jury deciding their fate. It is guaranteed under this amendment.
What is the Sixth Amendment?