Early colonial america

Question 1

Transatlantic Slave Trade (triangular trade)

Answer 1

Trade system between Europe, Africa and the Americas
Goods and resources were sent from Europe to Africa; enslaved people were taken to the Americas to work the land and produce resources that were sent back to Europe.
The Middle Passage was one leg of this trade route

Question 2

Jamestown, Virginia

Answer 2

the first permanent English settlement, founded in 1607 by the Virginia Company for economic reasons

Question 3

Plymouth colony

Answer 3

A colony established by the English Pilgrims, or Separatists, in 1620. The Separatists were Puritans who abandoned hope that the Anglican Church could be reformed. Plymouth became part of Massachusetts in 1691.

Question 4

treaty of paris of 1763

Answer 4

Ended French and Indian War, France lost Canada, land east of the Mississippi, to British, New Orleans and west of Mississippi to Spain

Question 5

Navigation acts

Answer 5

Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.

Question 6

Boston massacre

Answer 6

The first bloodshed of the American Revolution (1770), as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans

Question 7

Revolutionary war

Answer 7

War fought between the American colonies and England. American colonies won war and gained independence and British land in North America. (date)

Question 8

representative government

Answer 8

a system where citizens elect individuals to act on their behalf and make decisions in government, rather than directly voting on every issue themselves

Question 9

Maryland toleration act

Answer 9

protected all men and woman who belong to the christian religion. did not accept bad talk about the religion or else there would be consequences.

Question 10

Virginia House of Burgesses

Answer 10

virginia colonists took the first step towards republican government when they instituted the colonies first law making body. first legislative body in virginia.

Question 11

proclamation of 1763

Answer 11

prohibited permanent colonial expansion west of the ridge of the appalachian mountains.

Question 12

french and indian war