Colonial Foundations
This colonial agreement created self-government in Plymouth in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This was the main reason different colonial regions developed different economies.
What is geography and/or climate?
This 1765 law taxed printed materials like newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1773 event saw colonists dump tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This philosopher’s ideas about natural rights influenced Jefferson.
Who is John Locke?
This early representative assembly was established in Virginia in 1619.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This colonial region had large fishing and shipbuilding industries.
What is New England?
After the French and Indian War, Britain started taxing the colonies for this reason.
What is to pay off war debt?
Britain punished Boston with these laws after the Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This was the slogan used by colonists protesting being governed without their consent.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
This New England practice let colonists vote on local issues in meetings.
What are town meetings?
Fertile soil and a moderate climate made this region known as the “breadbasket colonies.”
What are the Middle Colonies?
This law required colonists to purchase tea from Great Britain, and thus pay a tax.
What was the Tea Act?
This 1776 document listed grievances against the king and separated the colonies from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued that independence was necessary.
What is Common Sense?
This economic system meant colonies provided raw materials to the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Long, hot summers and fertile land made this cash crop the most important in the Southern Colonies.
What is tobacco?
This form of protest involved colonists refusing to buy British goods.
What is a boycott?
This 1775 battle was the “shot heard ’round the world.”
What is Lexington and Concord?
The Declaration of Independence says governments get their power from this source.
What is the consent of the governed or the people?
This British policy of weak enforcement let colonies govern themselves.
What is salutary neglect?
This 1651 law (and later updates) restricted colonial trade to support mercantilism.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This 1770 event was used as propaganda after British soldiers fired into a crowd.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This 1775 petition was the colonies’ last attempt at peace with Britain.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
According to the Declaration, these rights—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—cannot be taken away.
What are natural rights or unalienable rights?