Exploration & Colonization
State founded by Roger Williams
What is Rhode Island?
Critiqued mercantilism in The Wealth of Nations
Who is Adam Smith?
Country with the highest percentage of immigrants
What are English, Welsh, and Scottish to New England and the southern colonies?
Turning point of the Revolution
What is Saratoga?
This place was the bridge for trading between the Indian Ocean Trade and Europe
What is Italy?
Partially the reason for the Spanish success and riches
What is colonization?
Spain lost power within 100 years of plundering silver and power from the New World due to
What are poor investments and inflation?
Name the liberties white women in the colonies had
They could divorce an abusive husband, widows could inherit land and property, could be tried and punished for a crime, she could have 7-8 children on average, work in fields, handle all domestic duties of the home and sell farm products or sewing skills on the side.
Components of the Declaration of Independence
Legitimate government must respect men’s God-given rights, or the citizens can change it.
King George III was responsible for a ‘conspiracy against liberty.
All men are created equal.
Vast majority of Africans that were sold into slavery went to these places
What is the Caribbean and Brazil?
What Indians lacked in order to create a significant reprisal to colonial incursion in the 17th century
What is disease, a lack of a united front, and lack of guns?
1668 event that limited monarchy and inspired colonial liberty ideas
What is the Glorious Revolution?
Quaker and Presbyterian yeoman farmers that provided all the family's basic needs from 50-300-acre farms and raised/sold wheat as cash crop relates to this region
What is the Rural Middle Colonies?
What is the expulsion of provincial governors and replacement with local electorates, the Continental Association, the First Continental Congress,
The guarantee of a Bill of Rights was a compromise by the Federalists to promote this
What is the ratification of the Constitution?
Characteristics of slave treatment and status in colonial America
Slaves were abused to the point of making death a common occurrence
Childbirth was encouraged by slave owners
If a slave died while being punished it was not a crime
They were considered disposable, however, simply replaced by a new purchase
Regions that were primarily dependent on rice
What is South Carolina and Georgia?
Indians primarily allied with the French in fighting the British in the 17th and 18th centuries for this
What are trade relationships, land pressure, cultural approach, and military strategy?
The impetus and impact of the Second Continental Congress
What is The Continental Army, Declaration of Independence, Olive Branch Petition, Lexington & Concord?
One of the reasons that the development of European civilizations did not blossom until after 1400
What is the Black Death?
The impetus and impact of the founding of the colonies of Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire.
Connecticut: political freedom & self-government.
Rhode Island: religious freedom & tolerance.
New Hampshire: economic opportunity & royal control.
The impetus and impact of the removal of James from the throne of England and the invitation from Parliament to install his daughter and William of Orange included.
The English Bill of Rights.
The return to a Protestant monarchy.
Restoration of semi-autonomous governments in the colonies.
The political spirit of ‘government by the people’ as professed in Cato’s Letters being embraced by the Colonials.
Served as the foundational premise that later inspired the ideals of an American Republic, becoming a rallying cry that if the interests of the Colonials were not being served by the Crown, that the ‘people’ could reclaim their liberty (John Locke and Thomas Paine)
This can be said of the Colonials fighting the Revolutionary War
Washington used a ‘hit and run’ strategy, avoiding pitched battles that gave the British larger forces and firepower an advantage.
British missteps that fueled what colonials deem as abusive to their civil liberties
What is the The Sugar Act, The Currency Act, The Stamp Act, The Navigation Acts, The Proclamation Line of 1763?
Essays by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, serving as inspiration for colonial's cry for 'government by the people'