Exploration/Vocabulary
This is a word that has to do with money. $$$
What is economics?
This religious group settled in Maryland.
What are Catholics?
This religious group settled in Pennsylvania.
What are the Quakers?
This was the reason why the King was in debt and needed to tax the colonists for revenue.
What is the French and Indian War?
What is the Sugar Act?
This country came to the New World seeking gold, power, and conquest.
What is Spain?
This region has hard rocky soil that makes it hard for successful agriculture.
What is the New England Colonies?
Boston, New York, and Charleston are all important cities because of this.
What are Natural Harbors?
This act forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
After the Sugar Act was repealed, Parliament passed these acts which placed taxes on tea, glass, paper, lead, and paints. This also enforced the Writs of Assistance.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This country wanted to explore to expand their fur trade.
What is France?
This is when colonists had a religious revival where the idea of religious freedom was expanded. This also helped unify the colonists.
What is The First Great Awakening?
This was the first written constitution. This also included the idea of a representative democracy.
What is The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
The colonists boycotted British goods such as official documents and printed products after Parliament passed this act.
What is the Stamp Act?
After the Tea Act was passed, the Sons of Liberty organized a protest where they dressed as Mohawk Indians and dumped British tea overboard.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This is the idea that the colonies must only trade with England to benefit its mother country.
What is mercantilism?
A person from this region would say:
"My family has owned this plantation for years and the crops we grow are the best in the world."
What is the Southern Colonies?
This type of government was an example of self-government where colonists were able to make their own laws.
What is House of Burgesses?
What is The Proclamation of 1763?
One representative from 12 out of the 13 colonies met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia to discuss what needed to be done about the King.
What is the First Continental Congress?
What is grievance?
This region is known as the "Mixture Colonies" or as the "Bread-Basket Colonies." Some colonies in this region were founded for religious freedom while others for wealth. A large amount of the food grown in the colonies was grown in this region.
What is the Middle Colonies?
Pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower from England and settled in this area to escape religious persecution.
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
Parliament passes these laws as a result of the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
What is the Boston Massacre?