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Unit 1: Colonial Regions and American Revolution Flashcards

1
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What was the reason for American Colonization in the New England Colonies?

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Religious Freedom and to escape religious persecution

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What was the reason for American Colonization in the Southern Colonies?

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Economic purposes/to make money

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3
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What did the Puritans create?

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City Upon the Hill

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4
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The idea that it was a godly model colony for all others to look up to

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City Upon the Hill

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5
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What colony had little religious tolerance?

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New England Colonies

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6
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Who founded Pennsylvania?

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William Penn

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7
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Who believed that everyone had an inner light?

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Quakers

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An intellectual movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method

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The Enlightenment

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  • A revival of religious feeling
  • A return to Puritan Values and a rededication to God.
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The Great Awakening

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10
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Religious equality that fostered the development of democratic political institutions

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Egalitarian Dream

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11
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How was the Egalitarian Dream destroyed?

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The dream was destroyed as economic prosperity developed and immigration increased, so did class distinctions.

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12
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What was The House of Burgesses a symbol of?

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Representative Government

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13
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Allowed the colonies to rule themselves

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Salutary Neglect

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14
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Democratically elected congresses meant to run the colony

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Colonial Assemblies

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15
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Colonial assemblies controlled the tax money collected in the colony

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Power of the Purse

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16
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What colony had poor soil and did not depend on slave labor?

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New England Colonies

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17
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What did New England’s economy depend on?

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Rich Forest = Ship building = the rise of merchant sailors and fishermen (close to ocean with good harbors)

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18
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Describe the Mid-Atlantic economy

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Export trade in food stuffs (wheat – “Bread Basket”

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19
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Describe the Southern economy

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Cash Crops (tobacco, rice, and indigo)

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20
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What was the specific trade route from Europe to West Africa, West Africa to Americas, and Americas to Europe?

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Triangular Trade

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21
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In the Triangular Trade, what did Europe give West Africa?

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Textiles, rum, and manufactured goods

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22
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In the Triangular Trade, what did West Africa give to America?

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Slaves

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23
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In the Triangular Trade, what did America give to Europe?

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Sugar, tobacco, and cotton

24
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The belief that the colonies existed in order to serve the economic interests of the mother country

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Mercantilism

25
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No country could trade with the colonies unless the goods were shipped in either colonial or British ships

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Navigation Acts

26
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Recognized the rights of Englishmen to be consulted on the levying of taxes

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Magna Carta

27
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  • Furthered the idea that people had the right to be consulted on taxes through their representatives
  • People have the right to religious freedom
  • English law clearly stated that everyone had to obey the law, even the king
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English Bill of Rights

28
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What was the Mayflower compact?

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  • Settlers agree with each other to obey laws
  • Gov. derives its authority from the people
  • Establishment of self-gov
29
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What are examples of self-gov in the colonies?

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Virginia House of Burgesses, Mayflower Compact, and New England Town meetings

30
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What was John Locke’s Social Contract Theory?

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  • Man had natural rights to life, liberty, and property
  • The authority of the government rests on the will of the people
31
Q

In the French and Indian War who fought against each other?

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The French and Indian fought together against the British and the colonists

32
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Who is one heroic figure of the French and Indian War?

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George Washington

33
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What ended the French and Indian War?

A

Treaty of Paris in 1763

34
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What did the British Parliament pass that forbid colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains?

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Proclamation of 1763

35
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What ended after the French and Indian War?

A

Salutary Neglect

36
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Who created “Join or Die” and what did it mean

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Benjamin Franklin, proposed that the colonies unite to form a federal government

37
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What taxes did England impose on the colonies to help pay for the war debt?

A
  • Sugar Tax
  • Stamp Act
38
Q

What led to the cry of “no taxation without representation?”

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Parliament’s failure to recognize the exclusive right of the colonial assemblies to collect taxes
- Resulted directly from the Stamp Act

39
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A group that was created to scare off tax collectors

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The Sons of Liberty

40
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What led to the Boston Massacre?

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The Quartering Act

41
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What act taxed on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea?

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Townshend Act

42
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Reinforced a tea tax in the American colonies

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Tea Act

42
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What act resulted in the Boston Tea Party?

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The Tea Act

42
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What Act was created in response to the Boston Tea Party?

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Intolerable Act

43
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What Act closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea?

A

Intolerable Act

43
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Agreed to boycott British goods and services

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First Continental Congress (1774)

44
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  • “Shot heard ‘round the world”
  • Began the Revolutionary War
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Lexington and Concord (1775)

45
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What Continental Congress sent the Olive Branch Petition to the King of England requesting peace, but the King rejected it and declared them traitors?

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2nd Continental Congress

46
Q

Who published Common Sense?

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Thomas Paine

47
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What did Montesquieu argued for?

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Separation of Powers in order to avoid tyranny

48
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Who published Wealth of the Nations?

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Adam Smith

49
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What was Adam Smith beliefs?

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That the role of government was to maintain law and order, protect the rights of private property, regulate the monetary system, and undertake the few necessary public projects.

50
Q

Colonists who were for independence?

A

Patriots

51
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Colonists who were opposed to independence (wanted to stay loyal to the king)

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Loyalists

52
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This document declared that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.

A

Declaration of Independence

53
Q

What were voting rights like during colonial period?

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Only white men who own land were allowed to vote.

54
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These groups have been historically disempowered and oppressed by influential and discriminatory group

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Marginalized groups

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