Colonial History

Region that was home to the first permanent British colony. 

Southern

Region that generally believed in religious tolerance 

Middle

Region that was home to cities such as New York and Philadelphia

Middle

Region that was home to the first elected assembly in the New World

Southern

What was the first elected assembly in the new world?

The House of Burgesses

Region that often intolerant of those not sharing their religion

New England

Social structure was based on family status and ownership of land. 

Southern

People who formed a covenant community based on the principles of the Mayflower Compact and the Puritan religion settled this region.

New England

Practiced a form of direct democracy through town meetings.

New England

Region that had a diverse social structure that was home to multiple religious groups like Quakers, Jews, Catholics, protestants, etc. 

Middle

Economy based on shipbuilding, fishing, small scale agriculture and eventually manufacturing. 

New England

Colonial-era New England Town meetings and the Virginia House of Burgesses were both

steps in the growth of representative democracy

The differences in the economic development of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies can BEST be attributed to the

differences in the colonial governments

Which statement about the British colonial policy of mercantilism is MOST accurate?

Raw materials from the colonies were shipped to England.

The Mayflower Compact is an example of the efforts of colonial Americans to

use democratic practices in government

Indentured servants were important to the development of the colonies because they 

provided relatively cheap and an abundant source of labor for planters and farmers

Salutary neglect meant that

England allowed the colonies to govern themselves

The first important cash crop in the British American colonies was

Tobacco

The first major national event in the British colonies was

The First Great Awakening

During the colonial era, a system emerged where workers agreed to work for a master for four to seven years in exchange for passage, room, board, and lodging. This system was known as

indentured servitude

Why did the settlers found Jamestown, Virginia?

For economics looking for gold, from join stock companys

What did settlers face when they didn’t find the gold?

They didn’t plant crops and faces starvation

Who attacked the Jamestown territory?

Powhatan Indians

Who introduced tobacco?

John Rolfe

Who did they hire for workers first in virginia?

Indentured servants from England

Who did they use for cheaper labor?

African slaves

What was the first legislative assembly in America?

House of Burgesses

What did Bacon’s Rebellion prove?

slaves were better than indentured servants because slaves never asked for land

What caused Bacon’s Rebellion?

Poor farmers led by Bacon blaming Virginia’s governor for not protecting them

Why did the colonists come to New England?

Religious reasons

Who were the protestants who sought to get rid of the Anglican Church of Catholic practices?

The Puritans

Why were puritans also known as separatists?

They were unwilling to wait for church reforms

Who created the Plymouth colony?

The pilgrims

Who created the Mayflower Compact?

The pilgrims

What was the first example of self-government in America?

The Mayflower Compact

What was the “city on a hill” created by john winthrop?

John wanted to build Boston as it to be model to other Christians

John Winthrop leading 16,000 Puritans to the Massachusetts Bay colony

Great Migration

Where were town meeting held in the New England colonies?

In the church in the center of town

Who created the first written constitution in US history and what was it called?

Connecticut, The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

What was Anne Hutchinson banned for?

Challenging Puritan authority

What was the Salm witchcraft trials?

When women were accused of being witches

What did William Penn found?

Pennsylvania

What religious sect was William Penn a member of?

The Quakers

What was the holy experiment?

Was meant to promote religious toleration

What were British colonies governed by?

Salutary Neglect

What were democratic self-governments called?

Colonial Assemblies

The Virginia House of Burgesses and Massachusetts town meeting were two examples of what?

colonial government

Who was part of the triangular trade?

North America, Europe, and Africa

When nations export more than they import

Mercantilism

Requirement that the colonists can only trade with Britain.

The navigation acts

What was the largest rebellion in british colonial america?

The stono rebellion

Used revivals to encourage religious conversions

The great awakening

Who was rivals in 1750?

Britain and France because of mercantilism

Disputes along the Ohio River Valley led to what war?

The French and Indian War

Colonists across the British colonies met where to discuss the common problem of Indian attacks?

the albany congress

Who proposed the Albany Plan of union

Benjamin Franklin

What did the colonists lack to solve a common problem?

Unity

Who faced each other in the French and Indian war?

Britain and the North American colonists vs France, their colonists, and Indian allies.

British were losing in the early war years but then William Pitt issued what to win the war?

a “blank check”

How did the french and indian war end?

The Treaty of Paris in 1763

What was learned from the Indians to help the colonists?

guerilla fighting tactics

What led to huge war debts?

the blank check from william pitt

Parliament expected who to help pay off debts from the war?

The colonists

What ended salutary neglect?

The french and indian war

What did the British Parliament create after Pontiac’s Rebellion?

The proclamation line of 1763

What forbade colonists from moving across the Appalachian mountains?

The proclamation line of 1763

How did parliamentary sovereignty begin?

From the end of salutary neglect

Act that placed taxes on certain imports that had not been taxed before. Meant to crack down on smuggling

The sugar act

Protesting admiralty courts and increase smuggling was the american response to?

The sugar act

A tax law requiring colonists to purchase special stamps to prove payment of tax was what act?

The stamp act

Colonists harassing stamp distributors, boycotting British goods and preparing a declaration of rights and grievances was the reaction to what act?

The stamp act

What were formed to protest British restrictions and become the leaders of colonial resistance?

The sons of liberty and daughters of liberty

Britain taxing certain colonial imports and stationing troops at major colonial ports to protect customs officers were what act?

The townshend acts

Colonists protesting taxation without representation and organizing a new boycott of imported good was a reaction to what act?

The townshend act

Was the townshend acts direct of indirect taxes

Indirect

What did colonists create to communicate with each other?

Committees of correspondence

British troops stationed in Boston are taunted by an angry mob. The troops fire into the crowd. killing five colonists is what major event?

The boston massacre

Colonial agitators labeling the conflict a massacre and publishing a dramatic engraving depicting the violence was the reaction to what?

The boston massacre

Britain gives the east india company special concessions in the colonial tea business and shuts out colonial tea merchants is what act?

The tea act

Colonists in boston rebeling, dumping 18,000 pounds of east india company tea into boston harbor is what act?

Tea act

King george lll tightens control over massachusetts by closing boston harbor and quartering troops is what act?

intolerable acts

Colonial leaders form the first continental congress and draw up a declaration of colonial rights is the reaction to what act?

Intolerable acts

General gage orders troops to march to concord Massachusetts and seize colonial weapons is what major event?

Lexington and concord

What was the second continental congress?

Where leaders met and agreed to appoint george washington as head of the continental army.

Asking king george lll to compromise, but the king boldly refuses it

Olive branch petition

Ideas to justify everything

the enlightenment

who wrote that people have natural rights (life, liberty, and property?

john locke

Who believed that citizens have a social contact with their gov’t?

Rousseau

Who argued that power should not be in the hands of a king, but separated among gov’t branches?

Montesquieu

When did colonists draft the declaration of independence?

July 1776

Thomas Paine’s what convinced many neutral colonists to support independence from Britain?

Common Sense

What were the 3 groups American colonists were divided into?

The loyalists, patriots and neutral groups

Who wanted to remain british colonies?

Loyalists

Who wanted independence from Britain?

Patriots

What side was Nathanael Greene?

Patriots

What side was Charles Inglis on?

Loyalists

Who had the advantages of 400% larger and more experienced army, more money, dominant navy, manufacturing for supplies?

The British

Who had the advantages of familiarity with the environment, a commitment to win the war, short supply lines to their soldiers, defensive strategy?

The English

Where did the American revolution begin?

Lexington and concord

Who agreed to join the amcericans after the battle of saratoga in 1777?

The french