benchmark review! Flashcards
what was the first permanent English settlement
James Town
what was Plymouth founded for?
religious freedom
what was James town founded for?
for gold
where did the Mayflower intend to land?
Jamestown
How did Jamestown survive as a colony?
tobacco
what region settled primarily by Puritans
New England
Where did the witch trials happen?
new England
what colony was the most diverse?
middle colony
what was Pennsylvania founded for
Quakers
where was the refuge of Catholics founded?
Maryland
_____________ developed a plantation colony
southern
What was the result of the french and Indian war (7-year war)?
Proclamation Act of 1763
England gave the East India tea company monopoly with ___ _____
tea act
how did the English punish the colonist for the Boston Tea party?
with intolerable acts
who created anti-British propaganda after Boston massacre?
Paul Revere
what did John Locke believe?
that governments were formed to protect revolution
what was the Enlightenment? (inspire)
it greatly inspired the leader of the American Revolution
___________ formed in reaction to the intolerable acts
continental congress
what did the declaration NOT do
accuse members of parliament of being tyrants
“shot heard around the world” was during what
The battles of Lexington and Concord
Zenger Trial
early establishment of Freedom of the Press
Northwest Ordinance:
encouraged settlers to settle the territory and set up the regulation for how territories would become states
