Early Settlements
This colony was founded by a joint-stock company in hopes of finding gold and making more money
What is Jamestown?
Winner of the War
Who are the British?
Granted the East India Company monopoly on all tea exported to colonies
What is Tea Act?
Thomas Jefferson
Who was the author of the Declaration of Independence?
What are advantages of the British government?
Colony founded by John Winthrop and other wealthy Puritans. The goal was to create religious freedom
What was Massachusetts Bay Colony
Fertile land that provided access to valuable trading routes
What is the Ohio River Valley?
What are Townshend Acts?
The Pamphlet that encouraged colonists to be independent from Great Britain and create a democratic republican
What is Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
A global exchange between the New World and the Old World that brought goods, diseases, ideas, etc.
What is the Colombian Exchange
French and Native Americans vs British and colonists
Who are alliances in the war?
First direct tax on the colonists - helped to pay for war debts
What is the Stamp Act?
Rights you have because you are a person/rights you are born with
What are natural rights?
Unalienable Rights
The first battle of the Revolutionary War
What is Lexington and Concord?
The Virginia House of Burgesses, Mayflower Compact and Fundamental Orders of Connitecut are examples of:
What is first forms of self-government and legislature
Ben Franklin's Plan to have the colonies join together and be united under 1 central government
What is Albany Plan of Union?
Favorable balance of trade - more exports than imports. Colonies give mother country raw materials, mother country turns into manufactured goods
What is mercantilism?
Colonists meeting to discuss what they are doing with Great Britain / what their rights are
What is the Continental Congress?
The Battle where the British surrendered
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Increase wealth searching for gold and silver.
broaden influence in the world, become the most powerful country in the world
Escape religious persecution
What are reasons for European settlement?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
What are Intolerable/Coercive Acts
3 parts of the Declaration of Independence (how is it broken down/split up)
What are
1) Rights of Colonists and Purposes- NATURAL RIGHTS!
2) List of Grievances/Complaints against the king
3)Declaration of Freedom and Independence - SELF GOVERNMENT
Officially ends the war, recognized America as an independent country and creates borders for the new nation
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?