General Colonies
What cash crops dominated the Southern economy?
Tobacco, indigo.
What's the difference between the Quartering act and the Stamp Act?
Quartering Act houses soldiers, stamp act places tax on papers. Only British-taxed papers allowed.
True.
Provide an example of why King George was seemingly unfit to rule.
Medical reasons, insanity, confused wife with a tree, just "not there".
True/False: Not all is well in the colonies.
True.
In the Atlantic Slave trade, what was the journey enslaved Africans endured across the Atlantic called?
Middle Passage
What was salutary neglect? Bonus 100 - did Salutary neglect begin or end with the American revolution?
"Hands off" if you provide us income. Neglect ended as colonies' freedoms restricted.
What were the daughters/sons of liberty?
Colonists who organized protests, boycotts, or general resistance.
What were the percentages of population that supported wealthy, rebels, and neutrality, respectfully?
1/3, 1/3, 1/3
Group of advisors close to King who advised American colonies.
What did farming look like across colonies?
New England = diverse, subsistence farming. Middle=breadbasket, farming was economy. Southern/Chesapeake = plantations and cash crops.
T/F: The Tea Act was actually intended to be helpful to colonists.
True
What was a colonial response to the Tea Act?
Boston Tea Party
Declared one of the first acts of "domestic terrorism"?
Intimidation of British authority e.g. Tar-ing and feathering.
Who fired the first shot in the Boston Massacre? And what was the American response?
Who knows? Colonists portrayed in newspapers a British attack on Americans.
What was the name of the slave rebellion occurring during this time period?
Stono Rebellion
Why was the First Continental Congress created?
To consider an American response to the Coercive Acts.
What were similarities between Radical Whigs and the committees of correspondence? What was their influence.
Both spread information advocating colonial rights, especially through printing press.
What are the words describing the king's 2 children?
Heir/spare.
Where were the first shots of war fired in the Revolutionary War?
Lexington and Concord.
What is an example of an event in colonial America that started to promote colonial unity. Give 2.
Enlightenment, great awakening, Albany congress, "American" identity, desire for natural rights, to name a few.
Established that England always allowed to think for colonists.
What is a resolve in context of 1043?
A complaint/grievance.
What can we say about King George's family life?
Cold father and grandfather, initially a good father to his first children, but treatment declined to other children as he grew older.
What was the first battle of the Revolutionary War?
Battle of Bunker Hill