Exploration Goals
France focused primarily on this economic activity in the cold north of America.
What is fur trapping?
This colonial region was known for rocky soil, cold climate, and an economy based on fishing and shipbuilding.
What are the New England Colonies?
Distance from England and 'salutary neglect' led the colonies to develop this type of government.
What is self-government (or representative government)?
The economic system where Britain used the colonies for raw materials and as a market for goods.
What is mercantilism?
The first battles of the American Revolution, known as the 'shot heard 'round the world'.
What are Lexington and Concord?
The unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
These are the 'Three Gs' that motivated European exploration.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
Known as the 'breadbasket,' these colonies featured rich soil and were highly diverse and tolerant.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Established in 1618, this was the first elected legislative body in the colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This 1765 tax on legal and commercial documents was designed to pay for the French and Indian War.
What is the Stamp Act?
This harsh winter camp is where George Washington's men trained into a professional army.
What is Valley Forge?
This early agreement by Pilgrims was a foundational document for self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This European nation sought gold and built religious missions, heavily using native populations for labor.
What is Spain?
This region relied heavily on navigable rivers, a warm climate, and the plantation system.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This Protestant religious revival challenged traditional practices in the colonies.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This 1763 order forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains to reduce violence with Native tribes.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The final major battle of the American Revolution resulting in British surrender.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation were issued by this body in 1776.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
The primary reason the English established settlements along the eastern seaboard.
What is economic opportunity? (or religious/political freedom)
Tobacco, rice, indigo, and cotton are examples of these grown in the Southern Colonies.
What are cash crops?
This religious group in Pennsylvania passed the first anti-slavery resolution in 1688.
Who are the Quakers?
Britain's claim that colonists were represented in Parliament, even without elected colonial representatives.
What is virtual representation?
This battle was the turning point of the war because it convinced France to ally with America.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The treaty ending the Revolutionary War that established the Mississippi River as the western boundary of the US.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
The Dutch established a colony for economic reasons in the area that is now this US state.
What is New York?
The Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers, and Catholics all settled in the colonies primarily for this reason.
What is religious freedom?
The system of triangular trade connecting the colonies, England, West Africa, and the West Indies.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Acts passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party by closing the port and quartering troops.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
In response to the Intolerable Acts, this 1774 gathering boycotted British goods.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Complaining about taxation without representation and quartering troops are examples of these found in the Declaration.
What are grievances?