Benchmark Exam #rd Nine Weeks Flashcards
What was the economy of the New England colonies based on?
Fishing, lumber, trade, whaling.
What was the geography and climate of the New England Colonies?
Rocky soil, forests, long cold winters and short, humid summers.
What was the economy of the Middle Colonies based on?
Growing grain products and raising farm animals. A center for manufacturing and crafts.
What was the geography and climate of the Middle Colonies?
Good fertile soil with many river valleys. Mild winters and a long growing season.
What was the economy of the Southern colonies based on?
These colonies were agricultural and grew rice, tobacco, sugar cane, indigo, and eventually cotton.
What was the climate and geography of the Southern Colonies?
Good fertile soil and many fresh water rivers. Long growing season.
What was the first representative government in the New World?
The Virginia House of Burgesses
Magna Carta
Document King John was forced to sign to declare England as a limited government
Self government
The New World went into this after Salutary Neglect
Salutary Neglect
Britain’s unofficial policy, initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole, to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries.
Federalism
a system of government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government.
Manifest Destiny
the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast.
Railroads
Expansion west was easier with railroads
Monroe Doctrine
warned European powers not to interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere
Declaration of Independence
the founding document of the American political tradition. It articulates the fundamental ideas that form the American nation: All men are created free and equal and possess the same inherent, natural rights.
“Taxation without representation”
A situation in which a government imposes taxes on a particular group of its citizens, despite the citizens not consenting or having an actual representative deliver their views when the taxation decision was made.
Navigation Acts
passed by the English Parliament in the seventeenth century. The Acts were originally aimed at excluding the Dutch from the profits made by English trade.
Article of Confederation strengths
Brought the states together Was able to raise an army and navy Set up a postal system Congress was established Make war and peace Print money
Articles of Confederation weaknesess
No national executive
No national court system
National government could not collect taxes.
National Government could not raise an army.
National Government could not regulate trade.
Battle of Yorktown
On September, 28 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War.
Progressive Reformers
Journalists that exposed big businesses
