Unit 1

Question 1

Main qualities of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 1

Family oriented, very religious,

Question 2

Main qualities of the Virginia colony

Answer 2

Single men, economic, gold

Question 3

Southern Climate/ raw materials/ land/ topography

Answer 3

Warm and wet, fertile soil, good for cash crops, tobacco, rice, indigo, cotton

Question 4

Northern Climate/ raw materials/ land/ topography

Answer 4

Cold and rocky, not good for growing, subsistence farming, wood, shipbuilding

Question 5

Push factors

Answer 5

Reasons to leave a place (Bad jobs, religious persecution, high cost of living)

Question 6

Pull factors

Answer 6

Reasons to go to a place (Job opportunities, freedom, land)

Question 7

Biggest reasons people left England for the colonies

Answer 7

England had no opportunity for land, Anglican church, religious persecution

Question 8

What was New Englands economy based on?

Answer 8

Goods and services, ship building

Question 9

What was the Souths economy based on?

Answer 9

Plantation systems, cash crops, slave labor

Question 10

What is mercantilism?

Answer 10

The idea that the colonies work to serve the mother country economically, supplying raw materials and buying finished goods. Export more than you Import

Question 11

What is triangular trade?

Answer 11

Trade from England to Africa, Africa to Colonies, Colonies back to England

Question 12

What is salutary neglect?

Answer 12

Englands policy of allowing the colonies to govern themselves because it was too expensive/ difficult to put British troops in the colonies.

Question 13

When did salutary neglect end?

Answer 13

After the French and Indian war

Question 14

What did salutary neglect cause?

Answer 14

It caused the colonies to have a sense of independence from England.

Question 15

What were the main characteristics of the New England Colonies?

Answer 15

Church and school oriented, not religiously tolerant, ship building, large families, puritan

Question 16

What were the main characteristics of the Middle Colonies?

Answer 16

Tolerant, very diverse, good middle ground, family farms

Question 17

What were the main characteristics of the Southern Colonies?

Answer 17

Not religion focused, plantations, cash crops, money forward, slave labor necessary for economy

Question 18

What was the House of Burgesses?

Answer 18

The colonies representative government and legislative body

Question 19

What were the Town Hall Meetings?

Answer 19

Local gatherings to regulate and govern the colonies, representative governments

Question 20

Characteristics of the Anglican church?

Answer 20

Follows Catholic Practices, however the head of the church is the King of England

Question 21

Characteristics of the Huguenots?

Answer 21

Predestination, understanding the bible on their own, rejects the saints, prayers, and structure of the Catholic Church

Question 22

Characteristics of the Puritans?

Answer 22

Faith is focus of life, being able to read the bible, acceptance of god means they will be saved

Question 23

Characteristics of the Quakers?

Answer 23

God is in everyone, everyone is equal, nonviolent

Question 24

What is “The city upon a hill”?

Answer 24

The idea that the puritans had that they were the model community that others should try to achieve

Question 25

What was the French and Indian war?

Answer 25

A war fought between Britain and the Natives who allied with France. This happened because the French had a history of treating the Natives well. Britain and France were fighting over land which heavily effected the colonies.

Question 26

Who won the French and Indian war and what did it cause.

Answer 26

Britain won, giving the colonies control from the coast to the Mississippi, this lead to the proclamation line of 1763.

Question 27

What was the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 27

Stated that colonists could not move past the Appalachian mountains, this made colonists very upset and was one of the first things that gave colonists revolutionary thoughts

Question 28

What were the parliamentary acts?

Answer 28

Taxes and acts imposed on the colonists that made the colonists even angrier and want to separate from England more.

Question 29

what is “No taxation without Representation”?

Answer 29

The rallying cry for colonists, they were angry that Parliament was imposing taxes on the colonies without the colonies having representation in parliament.

Question 30

What is the Albany plan?

Answer 30

The first attempt by Ben Franklin to unite the colonies under one government

Question 31

What was the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 31

A group of patriots dressed up as Indians and attacked British ships at the harbor carrying tea. They dumped over $1 million in tea into the water.

Question 32

What was Britain’s response to the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 32

They closed the Boston harbor

Question 33

What was the Stamp Act Congress?

Answer 33

A meeting of colonists to discuss if Britain had the right to tax the colonists, this is where the rally cry “No taxation without representation” came from.

Question 34

What was the Mayflower Compact?

Answer 34

A document that established basic laws and order for the colony. First little bit of a democracy in the colonies.

Question 35

What was the first continental congress?

Answer 35

Delegates from each colony met in Pennsylvania to draft a list of grievances to the king. The agreed to meet 1 year later if the king did not respond.

Question 36

What was Lexington and Concord?

Answer 36

The very first battle of the revolution. This kicked off the American revolution and inspired several other revolutions – “The shots heard ‘round the world”

Question 37

What was the 2nd continental congress?

Answer 37

Happened only 8 months after the first continental congress because of the battle of Lexington and Concord. Drafted the Olive branch petition, established the articles of confederation, began the writing of the declaration of independence.

Question 38

What was “Common Sense”?

Answer 38

A persuasive paper to help encourage people to be in favor of the colonies gaining their independence. Stated that “A tiny island across the sea should not control a continent”

Question 39

What is The Declaration of Independence?

Answer 39

The colonies “Breakup letter” to the king. Established the independence of the colonies, and the idea that there should be a limited government that the people have the right to change if they are not protecting their natural rights

Question 40

What are the 3 natural (Inalienable) rights?

Answer 40

Life, Liberty, The pursuit of happiness

Question 41

What is social contract?

Answer 41

The idea that the people have the right to overthrow a government that is not protecting their natural rights.

Question 42

What is separation of power?

Answer 42

The idea that there should be multiple section of government that all work to check each other. Prevents anyone from having too much power. Montesquieu.