Colonial America
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware
What are the middle colonies?
These were run by officers and did not have juries.
What are vice - admiralty courts?
What is bi-cameral?
Creator of the Albany Plan of Union.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Products used by farmers families, but also sold in colonial markets and overseas.
What are cash crops?
Most important crop of Maryland and Virginia.
What is tobacco?
Limited westward expansion in an effort to keep Eastern markets profitable and avoid conflicts with Natives.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
"A firm league of friendship"
What were the Articles of Confederation?
Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia sent his surveryoe out west to tell French settlers they were trespassing on land claimed by Great Britain.
Who is George Washington?
After a successful fundraising campaign, the organization found itself with a ____________ of resources, allowing them to expand their services beyond the original plan.
What is a surplus?
Location in which most German immigrants settled during the colonial era.
What is Pennsylvania?
This let officers seize goods without going to court and lowered the tax on imported molasses.
What was the Sugar Act?
An agreement proposed by Roger Sherman the created a lower and upper house law making body. The upper house was known as the Senate and the lower house was known as the House of Representatives.
What was the Great Compromise?
This Native chief of an Ottawa village near Detroit attempted to unite Native forces and captured forts and British outposts. Native Americans killed settlers along the Virginia and Pennsylvania frontier. His name inspired the title of this war that ended in 1765.
Who is Pontiac?
Used in a sentence: The board of directors passed a ____________ to increase funding for the community outreach program, reflecting their commitment to local development.
What is a resolution?
The type of colonies that were ruled by individuals or groups to whom Britain granted land. (Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania)
What are proprietary colonies?
"Are the inhabitants to be knocked down in the streets? Are they to be murdered..." was shouted during this event.
What was the Boston Massacre?
George Mason of Virginia proposed these in 1787 to provide adequate protection, but was defeated. They were officially approved in 1791.
What are the Bill of Rights?
This famous Patriot said this during the Battle of Bunker Hill, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."
Who is Colonel William Prescott?
After the controversial decision, protesters burned an ________ of the politician in the town square as a symbol of their discontent.
What is an effigy?
Territory the the French and British fought over in the 1740s.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This law allowed one company to sell directly to shopkeepers and bypass colonial merchants who normally distributed this product.
What was the Tea Act?
Under this system, the national government controls currency can declare war while states establishe schools and marriage laws.
What is federalism?
She, a Massachusetts citizen, disguised herself as a boy and enlisted in the Revolutionary War.
Who is Deborah Sampson?
Used in a sentence: The ____________ was hired by the wealthy merchant to protect his caravan on the dangerous journey through the desert.
What is a mercenary?