Vocab
These were trade laws under England's mercantilist system that told American merchants who they could trade with.
What are Navigation Laws?
This colonial region is known for it's cool climate, rocky soil, and reliance on the ocean for fishing.
What is New England?
This Act taxed documents, playing cards, dice, newspapers and pamphlets.
What is the Stamp Act?
This fiery little pamphlet was written just 6 months before the Declaration of Independence was written to encourage colonists to support separating from England.
What is Common Sense?
This comprised the U.S.'s first constitution, lasting from 1776-1789; it established a weak central government and placed most powers in the hands of the states.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This was the cloth that American colonial women created as a boycott to British goods.
What is homespun?
The Mayflower Compact was signed by settlers of this colony.
What is Plymouth (or Massachusetts Bay)?
According to this, colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This group of representatives from the colonies approved the creation of the Continental Army and appointed George Washington as the commander in chief.
What was the Second Continental Congress?
1. Negotiate treaties
2. Establish a postal system
3. Declare war
4. Collect taxes
What is 4. Collect taxes?
This was the first permanent English settlement in America.
What is Jamestown?
This colonial region is known for its growing of wheat.
What are the Middle Colonies (or Mid-Atlantic Colonies)?
This event took place on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers open fired on a crowd of Bostonians protesting the Townshend Act.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This document was adopted in 1775 as a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the colonies. It asserted colonial right while still maintaining loyalty to the British crown.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
These were the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
What were: Britain had to recognize America's independence, established the western border at the MS River, the northern border at the Great Lakes, the southern border at FL.
A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, usually a distant one, and occupied by settlers of that country.
What is a colony?
What are the 5 colonies of the southern region?
What are: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia?
These were the first 2 battles of the American Revolution.
What were Lexington and Concord?
Besides the day-to-day support of troops during the Revolutionary war, including cooking, cleaning, sewing and mending uniforms, nursing sick and injured soldiers, women contributed to the war effort in these less traditional ways.
What is spying, fighting in combat, manning artillery?
The era from 1781-1789 is known as the Critical Period in US history because...
What is: inflation and recession, no stable currency, unemployment, tension between farmers and manufacturers
The unofficial British policy where they avoided strict enforcement of parliamentary law in the colonies.
What is salutary neglect?
This was the first example of a representative assembly in the colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
The British reacted to the Boston Tea Party by closing down the port of Boston under this piece of legislation. Bostonians couldn't stand it!
What are the Intolerable Acts (aka: the Coercive Acts)?
This was the last battle of the American Revolutionary War, during which General Cornwallis's troops were trapped in the Chesapeake Bay by Washington's infantry and De Grasse's naval fleet.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This uprising of Massachusetts farmers illustrated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and proved it needed to be revised or abolished.
What is Shays's Rebellion?