Early Colonial Interests
This crop became the first major cash crop in the colonies of Virginia and Maryland, driving their early economic success.
What is tobacco?
Passed in 1764, this British law placed a tax on molasses and sugar imported into the colonies, aiming to reduce smuggling and raise revenue after the French and Indian War.
What is the Sugar Act?
After this war, the British government issued the Proclamation of 1763 to stop colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the French and Indian War?
Signed in 1620 by the Pilgrims, this document was the first form of self-government in the English colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He was the leader of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and later became the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This colonial region’s agricultural economy depended most heavily on enslaved labor to grow cash crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This 1765 law required colonists to pay a direct tax on printed materials like newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards, sparking widespread protest.
What is the Stamp Act?
Another name for the French and Indian War, especially in Europe, where it was part of a larger global conflict.
What is the Seven Years’ War?
These local gatherings in New England allowed male church members and landowners to vote on laws and decisions for their community.
What are town meetings?
He was the author of the Declaration of Independence and an influential figure in the Enlightenment and politics.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Spain established missions in the Americas primarily for this purpose...
What is to spread Christianity?
These 1767 laws placed taxes on imported goods like glass, paint, paper, lead, and tea, leading to renewed boycotts and tension between Britain and the colonies.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Rising tensions over British taxes helped lead to this major conflict between the colonies and Great Britain.
What is the American Revolution?/Revolutionary War?
This intellectual movement of the 1600s and 1700s emphasized reason, individual rights, and questioned traditional authority, influencing colonial leaders like Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Enlightenment?
He wrote Common Sense in 1776, convincing many colonists that it was time to declare independence from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This European nation focused on fur trading and building alliances with Native Americans, rather than colonizing or conquering them.
What is France?
Passed in 1774 as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, these laws closed Boston Harbor, limited town meetings, and allowed British soldiers to be housed in colonists’ homes.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This war, fought between 1675 and 1678, was one of the deadliest conflicts between Native Americans and colonists in New England, led by Metacom, also known as King Philip
What is King Philip’s War?
The first representative assembly in the American colonies established in Virginia.
House of Burgesses (1619)
Also known as Metacom, this Native American leader fought against New England colonists in a war from 1675 to 1678 that bears his English name.
Who is King Philip?
This economic system required colonists to export raw materials and import manufactured goods, all to benefit the mother country, England.
What is mercantilism?
This British policy, resented by many colonists, required them to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers stationed in the colonies.
What is the Quartering Act?
This 1676 rebellion in Virginia was started by colonists who were angry about Native American attacks and the governor’s response.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
British policy of "hands-off" governing, allowing colonies to govern themselves in many ways.
Salutary Neglect
This Boston silversmith warned colonists that "the British are coming!" before the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Who is Paul Revere?