Regions
Define the term region.
An area with similar characteristics.
The area of the Americas the British colonized.
What is the East Coast?
Mercantilism is...
the economic system of the British; colonies gather raw materials and the mother country produces manufactured goods.
A complaint listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What is a grievance?
A person who does not agree with strong national government.
What is an anti-federalist?
The characteristics of the southern colonies.
Hot, long summers, grew cash crops.
The reason the French colonized the Americas.
To trade furs.
The King passed Acts in an attempt to regain money from this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
This was the leader of the Continental Army and helped inspire the troops to survive Valley Forge.
The principle of voting for others to represent your best interests in government.
What is Republicanism?
The characteristics of the middle colonies.
Warm climate, grew crops to make bread.
The reason the Spanish colonized the Americas.
Define civil disobedience.
What is an example prior to the American Revolution?
Civil disobedience is peaceful protest.
An example is the Boston Tea Party.
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This event demonstrated the weakness of the central government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The characteristics of the New England colonies.
Fishing, cold, infertile soil, whaling
The reason the British colonized the Americas.
To expand their empire and to spread mercantilism.
The purpose of the Intolerable Acts.
To punish the colonists.
This officially ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The idea that people give the government through their consent to being governed.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The reasons slavery developed in the southern colonies.
Plantations needed lots of unskilled workers.
The reason the first colonial settlers in Massachusetts came to the New World.
What is to practice their religions?
This Act placed a tax on all printed papers.
What is the Stamp Act?
A large British force was cut off by American and French troops by land and by a French fleet by sea.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The principle of dividing governments into different levels. (i.e. federal, state, city, etc.)
What is Federalism?