Geography of the 13 Colonies
The presence of rocky soil and a short growing season encouraged the development of this type of economy in New England.
What is a plantation economy? (Southern Colonies)
Under mercantilism, the American colonies primarily served as this for Great Britain.
What is a market for British manufactured goods and a source of raw materials?
This proclamation issued by the British government in 1763 aimed to limit conflict between Native Americans and colonial settlers.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This document, signed aboard a ship in 1620, helped establish self-government in Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This rebellion by farmers in Massachusetts highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
In New England, these geographic features most influenced its colonial economy.
What are good harbors, abundant forests, rocky soil, and a short growing seasons?
This economic policy aimed to make Britain wealthy through control of colonial trade.
What is mercantilism?
This was the primary cause of the French and Indian War.
What are disputed land claims in the Ohio River valley between the French and British?
This legislative body was the first representative assembly in the American colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This document, created in 1787, aimed to correct the problems of the Articles of Confederation.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The settlement of the Middle Colonies was influenced by these natural resources.
Fertile Soil
Britain used this policy to prevent the American colonies from trading with other nations.
What are the Navigation Acts?
The French and Indian War ended with this treaty in 1763.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Town meetings in this region of the colonies were an early form of direct democratic rule.
Hint: Think mayflower compact
What is New England?
This agreement established the framework for self-government in Plymouth Colony.
Answer: What is the Mayflower Compact?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This geographic factor most directly influenced the development of early colonial settlements.
What are rivers along the Atlantic coast?
During the 1700s, the British government used mercantilism to achieve this goal.
Answer: What is profit from its colonies?
What is profit from its colonies?
The outcome of the French and Indian War led to these taxes imposed on the American colonies by Britain.
What are new taxes to pay for British war debts?
These two documents contributed to the growth of representative democracy in the colonies.
What are the Mayflower Compact and the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This event revealed serious weaknesses in the government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
Slavery in the American colonies was most concentrated in these regions. + List 3 Cash crops produced in these colonies
Slavery in the American colonies was most concentrated in these regions.
Tobacco
Rice
Indigo
Cotton
These events involving the Stamp Act and Boston Tea Party led to this major conflict.
What is the Revolutionary War?
The French and Indian War was a conflict between these two European powers in North America.
Who are the French and British?
This geographic factor most directly influenced the location of the first English settlements in North America.
What are rivers along the Atlantic coast?
These two early legislative bodies were steps in the growth of representative democracy in the American colonies.
What are the Virginia House of Burgesses and New England town meetings?