COLONIAL GEOGRAPHY
This region included Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire
What is New England?
These workers agreed to labor for 4-7 years to pay for their passage to America.
What are indentured servants?
European diseases like this killed up to 90% of some Native populations.
Smallpox
This 1765 tax on paper goods sparked the cry "No taxation without representation.
What is the Stamp Act
According to Locke, governments get their power from this source.
What is consent of the governed?
Known for its fertile soil and diverse population, this region was called the "bread basket."
What are the Middle Colonies?
This cash crop made Virginia wealthy and increased demand for slave labor.
What is tobacco?
In Iroquois society, these people chose the chiefs and had significant political power.
Women
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet urging Americans to declare independence.
What is "Common Sense"?
This term describes when people give up some freedoms to gain protection from government
What is social contract?
These Mountains formed the western boundary of the 13 colonies
The Appalachian Mountains
This region was known as the "breadbasket" due to its production of grains
This confederation of six tribes influenced Benjamin Franklin's ideas about colonial unity.
What is the Iroquois League?
This event in 1773 saw colonists dump 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first example of this in America
What is representative government/elected legislature?
This geographic feature made Charleston, New York, and Boston important colonial ports.
What are natural harbors?
This trade route connected New England, Africa, and the West Indies through the exchange of rum, slaves, and molasses.
What is the Triangle Trade?
Native Americans served this role in councils, memorizing treaties and decisions since they had no writing.
What are living records/keepers of oral tradition?
British soldiers shot and killed 8 colonist during this contentious event
What is the Boston Massacre?
New England town meetings were an example of this type of democracy
What is direct democracy?
This imaginary line established by Britain in 1763 prohibited colonial settlement west of the mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line?
This is the resource that was sold from the mother country to the colones.
What are manufactured goods?
This was the estimated Native American population in Massachusetts before European diseases
What is 30,000?
This war left Britain with massive debt, leading them to tax the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
This 1620 agreement created the first self-governing document in America
What is the Mayflower Compact?