Exploration/Colonization
Due to their hot climate and fertile soil, Southern colonies created these to support agriculture (farming)
What are plantations?
Colonists cannot cross the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation Line?
Trade with anyone (economic system colonists wanted)
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Shipbuilding, fishing, and whaling
What are economic activities of New England?
British punishment for the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Economic system that benefits Great Britain (Tea Act)
What is Mercantilism?
Turning point of the American Revolution in 1777, France agrees to help Patriots
What is Saratoga?
Led the Continental Army (Patriots) during the American Revolution
Who is George Washington?
As a result of distance from Great Britain (salutary neglect), colonists created this
What are representative self governments?
Great Britain was in debt
What is economic effect of the French and Indian War?
Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are examples of this
What are unalienable rights?
Final battle of the American Revolution
What is siege of Yorktown?
This country came to the Americas to trade fur with Indians
What is France?
This colony was created for Catholics
What is Maryland?
Examples of taxes paid by colonists
What are sugar act, stamp act, tea act?
A complaint
Washington inspires troops through cold, starvation, and disease.
What is Valley Forge?
Plantation owners received free labor using this
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
Reason why Plymouth was settled (Massachusetts)
What is escape religious persecution?
Petitioning the King and boycotting British goods
What is colonists' response to the Intolerable Acts?
Breaking the law peacefully (Boston Tea Party)
What is civil disobedience?
Colonists list grievance against Great Britain in break up letter written on July 4, 1776
Which era involved the Intolerable Acts, Quartering Act, and the Proclamation Line?
What is the Revolutionary Period?