A region of American colonies that held religion to be very important and economically they specialized in fishing, shipbuilding, and whaling.
What is New England Colonies? (MA, NH, CT, RI)
100
A group who wanted to "purify" the church of England, so they left England and established the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What is Puritans?
100
The political principle that government came from a voluntary act of free people, in which they agree to give up power to the government for the general well-being of the society.
What is Social Contract?
100
War between the French and Indians and the British over land claims in the New World that ended with British gaining French territories to the Mississippi River and eventually led to increased taxes in the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
Search warrants that gave British soldiers the right to search colonists homes and businesses whenever and for whatever reason. Violated the previous ideas of Due Process and influenced the addition of the 4th, 5th, and 6th amendments to the Constitution.
What is a Writ of Assistance?
200
A region of American colonies were well-known for their slave plantation and produced lots of tobacco, rice, and indigo.
What is Southern Colonies? (VA, MD, NC, SC, GA)
200
A type of colony run and owned by a proprietor, who makes decisions for the colony and pays the crown "rent" for the land.
What is a Proprietary Colony?
200
A document signed by William and Mary of England that set up free parliamentary elections, the right to a speedy and fair trial, no cruel and unusual punishment or excessive bail. This influenced the development of the US Bill of Rights.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
200
Required colonists to purchase a stamp for certain documents such as newspapers, marriage licenses, and shipping statements.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
Group of American Patriots that supported the cause of Independence from Great Britain. Helped get the Stamp Act repealed.
What were the Sons of Liberty?
300
A region of American colonies. Were economically specialized in producing wheat, iron, and livestock.
What is Middle Colonies? (NY, NJ, PA, DE)
300
A form of colony run directly by the king through the use of an appointed governor.
What is a Royal Colony?
300
According to John Locke, these are things all people have from birth that should be protected by the government. They consist of the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness/property.
What are Natural Rights?
300
Required colonists to house and feed British soldiers in their homes, influenced the addition of the 3rd Amendment to the Constitution.
What is the Quartering Act?
300
Event in Boston where tons of tea were dumped into the harbor. Led to Britain closing Boston Harbor until the tea was replaced/paid for.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
An economic system that says the amount of wealth in the world is limited and that nations should increase their power by selling more than they buy and that colonies should profit for their colonizer.
What is Mercantilism?
400
A type of colony established when a group of investors invest money in an exploration and to help set up a colony in hopes to make profits from the colony's production.
What is a joint-stock company?
400
When England became less strict on the colonial function and trade law during the early part of the 1700s.
What is Salutary Neglect?
400
Clarified Britain's right to tax the colonists, specifically to help pay war debts collected during the French and Indian war.
What is the Declaratory Act?
400
Britain's response to the Boston Tea Party- they closed the Boston port, stopped all colonial town meetings, and allowed British soldiers accused of crimes in the colonies to be tried in England instead of the colonies.
What is the Coercive Acts (Brit)/ Intolerable Acts (Am)?
500
A group of people who left the Church of England, signed the Mayflower Compact, and set up a new colony in New England.
What is Pilgrims?
500
A document from the Middle Ages that established the principle that the power of the English monarch was not absolute. This was used to support the Constitutional principle of rule of law.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
Identify the relationship between the following and theh American Revolution:
- Change in England's attitude of Salutary Neglect towards colonies
- Increase in taxes to pay for debts from the Seven Years' War/French and Indian War
- Effects of mercantilism on the colonies.
- Colonial history of developing self-government
- Writing of the Declaration of Independence.
What are Causes of the American Revolutionary War?
500
Required that trade could only be done using British ships and items could only be sent from and through Great Britain. Negatively impacted colonial economic opportunities with other countries.
What are the Navigation Acts?
500
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that encouraged the colonies to move for independence from Great Britain.