Colonial Life & Regions
These colonies developed large plantations and relied heavily on cash crops such as tobacco, rice and indigo.
What are the Southern colonies?
What is "No taxation without representation!"
This 1776 document announced that the colonies were separating from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This Founding Father was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America, established in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
These colonies generally had rocky soil, cold winters, and an economy based heavily on trade, fishing, and shipbuilding.
What are the New England colonies?
This 1765 law placed a tax on newspapers, legal documents, and other printed materials in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
This document established a form of self-government for the Pilgrims and was based on the idea of a majority rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
John Locke argued that all people possess these three natural rights.
What are life, liberty, and property?
This term describes the widespread exchange of plants, animals, people, diseases, and goods between the Americas and Europe/Africa.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
These colonies had fertile soil, a longer growing season, and an economy that included farming and trade.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This 1773 law gave the British East India Company about advantage in selling tea and led to the Boston Tea Party.
The Declaration of Independence argues that people have the right to do this when a government consistently violates their rights.
What is overthrow/change the government?
Paul Revere's famous midnight ride took place just before these battles, the first major battles of the American Revolution.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This was Britain's economic policy of controlling colonial trade to benefit the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This cash crop helped Virginia become economically successful and led to an increased demand for labor.
What is tobacco?
Although Britain won the French & Indian War, this consequence contributed to growing tensions between Britain and its American colonies.
What is Britain's large war debt, which led to new colonial taxes?
Although the Albany Plan of Union failed, it was significant because it was an early example of the colonies considering this idea.
What is colonial unity/self-government?
Thomas Paine challenged this form of government by arguing that hereditary rule was unfair and that people should govern themselves.
What is monarchy?
This colonial institution. established in Virginia in 1619, became the first representative legislative assembly in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The Proclamation of 1763 attempted to prevent colonists from settling west of this geographic feature after the French & Indian War.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
Britain passed these laws to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party, including closing Boston Harbor.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The publishing of this pamphlet encouraged American colonists to support independence from Britain in 1776.
*Also provide the name of the author*
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
Who is Samuel Adams, and what is the Sons of Liberty?
This unofficial British policy allowed the colonies considerable freedom because Britain did not strictly enforce colonial regulations.
What is salutary neglect?
Established in 1636 by Puritans seeking religious freedom, this colony became known for town meetings and a strong tradition of self-government.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
In 1765, delegates from nine colonies met in New York to protest British law/taxes and argued that only colonial representatives had the right to tax the colonists.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
This Enlightenment idea became a major argument against British rule: governments receive their authority from the people and exist to protect their rights.
What is popular sovereignty/social contract theory?
This political philosopher argued for separation of powers and influenced the structure of the U.S. government.
Who is Montesquieu?
These 1651 series of laws regulated colonial trade and required certain goods to be transported on only English ships.