Colonization
This colony was founded in part as a refuge for English Catholics seeking religious freedom.
What is Maryland?
This document, signed in 1620, was an early agreement for self-government in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Colonists protested this British idea because they were taxed without having members in Parliament.
What is taxation without representation? (i.e. No Taxation without Representation)
These were the first battles of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This compromise created a Congress with two houses to settle disputes between large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
France established many colonies in North America mainly to build trading posts and profit from the trading of what resource.
What is fur?
This elected assembly in Virginia was an important early example of representative government.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This 1763 British policy limited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of the 1763?
This battle was the major turning point that convinced France to support the American cause.
What is Saratoga?
This compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for representation purposes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This colony was founded in Virginia for economic reasons.
What is Jamestown?
Because the colonies were so far from England, this developed more in colonial America.
What is self-government?
These laws were passed after the Boston Tea Party and led colonists to organize resistance together.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
Washington’s army suffered through a difficult winter at this camp in Pennsylvania.
What is Valley Forge?
This founding document was weak because it gave most power to the states and little to the national government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The Southern Colonies developed these in their economy because of warm temperatures and fertile soil.
What are cash crops?
This was the first written constitution in the Western world, set up in Connecticut.
What was the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This economic system kept the colonies under British control for the benefit of the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This final major battle of the Revolution ended with the British surrendering under Cornwallis.
What is Yorktown?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known by this name.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Pennsylvania attracted settlers in part because it offered this freedom, which many colonists wanted.
What is religious freedom?
Thomas Hooker helped promote self-government by supporting the idea that people should elect these.
What are representatives?
Delegates from the colonies met at this gathering to organize a united response to British actions.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This 1783 treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War and recognized American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
This English document strongly influenced the protections later included in the first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the English Bill of Rights?