Terms
This term refers to the exchange of goods from the Americas, Europe, and Africa, with each region providing something unique to the others.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This event was characterized by an increase of interest in religious conversion and helped unite the colonies.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This man was referred to as a "royal brute" by a prominent author.
Who is King George III?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This battle was the turning point that convinced the French to join the war against the British.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This way of understanding civil government argues that citizens voluntarily give authority to a governing body in exchange for the protection of the rights of the citizens.
What is the social contract theory?
This intellectual movement helped American colonists understand the purpose of government and the existence of natural rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
This man was the author of the influential book Common Sense, published in January of 1776.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This document declared that the Puritan colonists sought to be "a city on a hill."
What is "Model of Christian Charity?"
The "Battle of Bunker Hill" is misnamed. It should be referred to by the name of a different hill on which the battle was actually fought.
What is Breed's Hill?
This term refers to Great Britain's "hands off" approach to colonial affairs.
What is salutary neglect?
These acts of Parliament sought to raise revenue to pay for the debts from the French and Indian War.
What are the Tea, Sugar, and Stamp Acts?
This evangelist who traveled up and down the colonies and preached outdoors was the first "celebrity" in North America.
Who is George Whitefield?
The Second Continental Congress sent this document to King George III seeking peace
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This thinker from the colonial period is often considered the smartest man to come from North America. He is sometimes referred to as "America's Augustine."
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
This theory of representation holds that all elected officials represent the entire population of a nation.
What is virtual representation?
The actions of this man helped trigger the outbreak of the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington?
While many of the Founders were from Virginia, this man from New England played a critical role in the Second Continental Congress.
Who is John Adams?
This treaty formally ended the French and Indian War
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
This treaty from 1494 divided the "New World" between Portugal and Spain. Portugal could colonize Africa and Brazil while Spain could colonize the Western Hemisphere
This kind of colony was composed of individual(s) who were given significant control over the governance of a colony. For example, this individual or group could appoint officials, determine the kind of colonial government, etc.
What is a proprietary colony?
Benjamin Franklin proposed a union of colonies in 1754 to help coordinate a colonial response to the French and Indian War. "Join or Die."
What is the Albany Congress?
This British Prime Minister secured passage of numerous revenue raising acts that helped start the Revolutionary War.
Who is George Grenville?
This document included the phrase: "That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights...namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
Washington was often compared to this Roman general who avoided major battles with the enemy and relied on smaller attacks intended to wear out their opponent
Who was Fabius?