13 Colonies
The southern colonies' economies were based on
What is plantation (farming)
The soil is rocky and the winters are long in the ________________________________colonies
What is New England
What document was written as a social contract?
What is Mayflower Compact
The battle known as the shot heard around the world is called
What is Lexington and Concord
What is the name of the deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street
What is Boston Massacre
The most prominent industry in the south is ___________
What is Agriculture
The soil was rich and temperatures were moderate with many farms in the ______________________colonies.
What is the Middle Colonies
What country did the colonist want to to maintain distance from?
The event where colonist dressed as Natives and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor as a form of protest
What is the Boston Tea Party
A colony that is located in the state of Virginia
What is Jamestown
This colony is know for whaling, fish building, shipbuilding and having rocky soil.
What is the New England Colonies
The Virginia House of Burgesses was significant because it served as a model for____________________
What is representative legislatures (governments)
The colonist were fighting and protesting against Great Britain in order to declare
What is independence
The crop that maintained Virginia's plantation economy was?
What is Tobacco
The land was ideal for planting large crops and the grow season was very long in the ______________________colonies.
What is the Southern
The first written document that helped limit the tyrant kings power
What is Magna Carta
What is another name for the Coercive Act?
What is Intolerable
Slaves from West Africa were shipped to the Americas in what is known as the ____________________trade.
What is the triangle or Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Tobacco, rice, indigo, and cotton were popular crops grown in the ____________________colonies.
What is Southern
American Colonists faced the following issues which created a need to establish their own____________________ *Distance from Great Britain *Need for lawmaking structure *Traditional rights of Englishmen
What is representative governments
What did the Treaty of Paris do
What is gained United States Independence
What is the name of author who wrote the Declaration of Independence
What is Thomas Jefferson