Movable rudder from Europe, Gunpowder & compass from China, and better sails from Arabia
What were some 15th century technology that helped Europeans sail further so they were confident enough to sail westward to find East Asia
100
An economic system developing during the decay of feudalism to unify and increase the power and especially the monetary wealth of a nation by a strict governmental regulation of the entire national economy usually through policies designed to secure an accumulation of bullion and developing a favorable balance of trade.
What is mercantilism
100
Created to commit to self-rule is this new colony of Plymouth in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact
100
Both France and England wanted the land in the Ohio River Valley
What is the cause of the French & Indian War
100
Kept the Colonialists from migrating to the western side of the Appalachian Mountains after the French & Indian War
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763
200
Items never seen before in America and Europe moved back and forth for the first time, such as diseases, cattle, horses, pineapples, corn, wheat, cocoa, grapes, etc
What is the Columbian Exchange
200
Pennsylvania, New England, all Maryland
What is colonies begun for religious reasons
200
The first constitution in America in 1639 that motivated America to be a nation of laws.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
200
Taxed lead, paint, glass, paper, and tea
What is the Townsend Acts
200
Forced colonists to buy tea from the East Indian Company and motivated the colonists to do something drastic like the Boston Tea Party
What is the Tea Act
300
The European Explorers came to America for what things or reasons.
What is God (Christianity), Gold (economic opportunities), and Glory (more power and fame for and within one's country.
300
Virginia, Carolinas, New York
What are colonies begun for economic reasons
300
The first representative assembly in the Americas begun in 1619
What is the Virginia House of Burgeses
300
France was kicked out of North America, Britain got all of Canada and the land from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River
What is Results (or outcomes) of the French & Indian War
300
A tax on all paper goods to get the American colonists to pay for the F&I War
What is the Stamp Act
400
The country Columbus was from and the country he worked for when he discovered America
What is Italian/Spain
400
Started Pennsylvania, was a Quaker, believed in religious freedom and non-violence
Who is William Penn
400
Rocky soil, short growing season, cold, had to make a living (make money to survive) in ways other than farming
What is New England Colonies
400
Left the American colonist alone as long as they made Britain money. The Americans liked this but it was stopped in 1763 which upset the American colonists.
What is salutatory neglect
400
A tax on molasses that was one of the first taxes to get the American colonists to pay for the F&I War.
What is the Sugar Act
500
France, Spain, England, Holland, and Portugal
What were the European countries who first explored and settled in the Americas?
500
Leader in Jamestown at the beginning.
Who is John Smith
500
Long growing seasons, great soil, big rivers, hot, slave labor, big plantations, cash crops (tobacco, cotton, indigo, rice)
What is the Southern Colonies
500
Closed Boston Harbor and prohibited town meetings in Massachusetts.
What is the Intolerable Acts
500
Started the Son's of Liberty to encourage American colonials to break away from England and start their own country.