Colonies
What are examples of cash crops during this time period? What colonial region specialized in cash crops?
The Southern colonies
What was the first example of representative government in the colonies?
Name 3 parties involved in the French and Indian War
French/Natives vs the Colonists/British/Natives
What was an outcome of the 1st Continental Congress?
They organized a boycott of British goods
Which colonial region had the highest ethnic and religious diversity?
The Middle colonies
What geographic feature allowed the Middle colonies to specialize in trade and wheat farming?
Rivers and a mild climate
How did the Great Awakening influence the American Revolution?
It led to the colonists rethinking their relationship with the British government
Prior to the French and Indian War, how did England govern the colonies. Use a specific phrase.
Salutary Neglect, which led to self government across the colonies.
How did Thomas Paine contribute to the American Revolution?
He wrote Common Sense, arguing for independence from Britain
Define Mercantilism
The purpose of colonies is to make money for the parent country.
What is the main difference between an indentured servant and a slave.
An indentured servant worked for a specific amount of time to pay off the debt from the voyage to the colonies, then was free. A slave was purchased and treated as property their entire lives.
What rights do we take from the Magna Carta?
Trial by jury, limited government, no taxation without representation
What were TWO immediate effects of the French and Indian War
End of Salutary Neglect
Proclamation line of 1763
Increased taxes
How did Britain justify the Stamp Act?
Britain went into debt helping the colonists the French and Indian War and felt that the colonists should repay them.
Which document brought Rule of Law to the colonies?
The Mayflower Compact
What was the main reason the New England colonies were founded AND what was their economy based on?
Religious freedom (Puritans)
Fishing, whaling, shipbuilding, lumber, fur
How did the Navigation Act of 1660 affect both England and the colonies?
Restricting the colonies to only trade with England helped English merchants and harmed colonial economies. MERCANTILISM
Why did the colonists believe that Britain's new taxes were unfair?
No taxation without representation
They had been used to self government
What were included in the Intolerable Acts?
Closed the Boston Harbor
Quartering of British troops in colonists homes
British troops accused of crimes would have trials back in Britain
Increased military presence
Who founded the Pennsylvania colony and what religion was he?
William Penn
Quaker
What did John Winthrop mean when he said that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was a "City on a Hill"?
He said that the colony would serve as the model for a Puritan society and that others would look down upon the religion if they did not uphold biblical teachings.
What were all 3 of John Locke's ideas that influenced the American Revolution?
Natural Rights
Consent of the Governed
Social Contract
Who called for the Albany Congress and why was it important?
Benjamin Franklin
It was the first time anyone called for the colonies to unite
Describe two important concepts from the Declaration of Independence.
Inalienable Rights (natural)
Egalitarianism
Consent of the governed
Which Enlightenment principle did the colonists use to justify overthrowing the British?
Consent of the governed
Natural Rights and Social Contract are okay answers