Life in the Colonies
A region of the colonies that was known for shipbuilding, fishing, and Puritan values?
What are the New England Colonies?
A written agreement to follow shared rules.
What is a compact?
The three continents that were connected by the Triangular Trade.
What are Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
The two countries that fought for control of North America.
Who are France and Britain?
The phrase colonists’ used to express anger about British taxes imposed without their input.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
These colonies were known for their large plantations and enslaved labor?
What are the Southern Colonies?
An official document giving permission to start a colony.
What is a Charter?
These goods were shipped from Europe to Africa.
What are guns, textiles, and alcohol?
This is the area of land that was at the heart of the French and Indian War conflict.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
The 1765 law that required tax stamps on all printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
This group of colonies had fertile farmland and diverse cultures?
What are the Middle Colonies?
An elected official who's job it is to speak on behalf of those who elected them.
What is a representative?
The "cargo" that was carried from Africa to the Americas.
What are enslaved Africans?
This young Virginian gained fame during the war as an officer in the British militia.
Who is George Washington?
The 1773 protest involved dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This made the post-Pilgrim period significant for colonial growth?
What is religious tolerance, and economic development?
The colony group that addresses the issues of bullying and name calling.
What is the respect and relationships group?
The main exports from the Americas to Europe
What are sugar, tobacco, and cotton?
The country that had belonged to France before the war, that Briton took control of after the war.
What is Canada?
The act that gave the British East India Company control over tea sales.
What is the Tea Act?
The two major challenges colonists faced when settling in America?
What are harsh climates and disease?
The purpose of the Constitutional Convention in your project.
What is to unite all colonies under one constitution?
The name of the horrific journey route enslaved Africans endured across the Atlantic.
What was the “Middle Passage”?
This method of warfare changed the way the Continental army would fight the British in the Revolutionary War.
What is Guerrilla Warfare?
As part of this act, British soldiers were allowed to take over someone's home for a bed, shelter, and food.
What is the "Intolerable Act"?
This southern crop helped build America into an economic power?
What is tobacco?
The person responsible for overseeing all representative meetings.
Who is the Chairman?
This nine corded "whip" was often used for disciplining and torturing enslaved Africans.
What is a "Cat-o'-nine Tails"?
This law prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains after the war.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The document that officially declared independence from Britain in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?