eighth grade social studies exam review.

they traveled across the bering strait land bridge.

what is the dominant theory for how the first people to north america got here?

francis marion.

known as the “swamp fox.”

to seek religious freedom.

why did the pilgrims and puritans come to the new world?

loyalists.

these people supported king george iii and many fought on the side of the british.

france, england, spain.

the three countries were the most dominant when it came to colonization of north america.

the states.

under the articles of confederation government, which group was given the most power?

to confiscate patriot weapons and arrest patriot leaders.

why were the red coats sent to lexington and concord in april 1775?

because it could be used as a blue dye for fabric.

why was indigo a valuable cash crop for colonial south carolina?

it placed a tax on all printed materials and legal documents.

the stamp act.

developing agriculture to provide a reliable food source.

what discovery allowed native american’s to settle down and create more permanent settlements?

emily geiger.

teenage girl served as a messenger for the patriots and escape capture by memorizing her message and eating it.

the patriots.

supporters of the declaration of independence, who fought against the british in the american revolution.

life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.

three unalienable rights listed in the deceleration of independence.

headright system.

gave out large land grants to experience settlers moving to south carolina.

economic system designed to enrich empires and make them self sufficient.

mercantilism.

battle of kings mountain.

bloody patriot victory in the backcountry where little mercy was shown to loyalists when they tried to surrender.

a group that protested the british taxes on the colonies.

the MAIN purpose of the sons liberty.

very early form of self government.

mayflower compact importance.

it created a bicameral legislature, the senate (equal representation) and the house of representatives (proportional representation).

the great compromise that reflected both the virginia plan & jersey plan.

spanish forced the natives to work for them, and also brought diseases which devastated native populations.

what impact did the spanish colonizers have on the native american populations in north america?

general cornwallis.

general of british military that surrender to the americans at the battle of yorktown.

they focused their economy on the advantages their geography provided them.

why did the economies of the southern, middle, & northern colonies develop n different ways?

battle of yorktown.

the last major battle/forced the british to surrender because they were surrounded by the patriots on land and the french at sea.

one biased point of view on the events.

paul revere was most colonists based their understand of the custom massacre on?

french lost a large amount of land & the british went into debt, which caused the british to tax the colonists for the first time.

results of the french & indian war?

a language/culture developed by combining west african barbados's elements.

gullah.

sectionalism.

loyalty to a region rather than to the nation as a whole.

cotton gin.

eli whitney.

british kidnapping of american sailors to serve in the royal navy (impressment).

we decided to go to war with great britain in 1812.

without a bill of rights, the federal government had too much power.

the main argument of the anti federalists over the ratification of the us constitution.

loyalists were colonists who remained loyal to britain, while patriots fought for independence.

difference between loyalists & patriots.

brought plantation for rice productions.

barbados influenced carolina’s developments.

south carolinians believed the lords proprietors were absent & didn’t understand their needs.

south carolina colonists were unhappy, why?

it forced colonists to buy to tea from the british east india company, creating a monopoly.

the tea act.

congress had no money to raise an army because they could not tax.

articles of confederation congress couldn’t help massachusetts during shay’s rebellion, why?

the voyage enslaved africans were forced to take from africa to the new world.

middle passage.

barbados.

where in the caribbean did the first enslaved africans come to columbia?

they wouldn’t accept being taxed by a government they had no voice in.

“no taxation without representation” - the colonists meaning.

a theory that government’s main purpose was to protect the people’s natural rights.

john locke theory.