CA 1 History CPA

Question 1

Navigation Act

Answer 1

• Forced colonial merchants to ship their goods on British ships losing money to the Monarch (Taxing colonist)
• Promoted self-sufficiency for the British Empire
• Decreased dependence on foreign imported goods

Question 2

Salutary Neglect

Answer 2

• British laws were being enforced loosely onto the colonists… Britain knew merchants were smuggling goods out of colonies

EX: I left my phone out all school year and then Mr. Bradley takes my phone on a random tuesday in May

Question 3

Declaration of Independence

Answer 3

• Summarized the colonist’s motivations for seeking independence

3 MAIN IDEAS:
(1) God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
(2) The main business of government is to protect these rights
(3) If a government tries to withhold these rights, the people are free to revolt and to set up a new government.

Question 4

Impel

Answer 4

• To drive, force, or urge
  EX: Being driven/propelled

Question 5

Endowed

Answer 5

• Provided with quality of ability
  EX: Natural talent in a sport

Question 6

Declaration of Natural Rights

Answer 6

• Government should equalize opportunities for all citizens
  BORN WITH THESE RIGHTS

Question 7

Boston Massacre

Answer 7

• March 5, 1770, a group of British soldiers shot their muskets into a crowd
• 5 colonists were killed, wounding another 6
• The massacre happened at a time of tension between the American colonies and Great Britain.

Question 8

Why was America growing in population and what land started to become available after the Revolutionary War?:

Answer 8

POPULATION: Higher birth rates in colonies, big families, less poverty

AVAILABILITY: More land and more opportunities for stable living

LAND: Western Lands, Ohio River Valley Region

Question 9

Boston Tea Party

Answer 9

• Night of December 16, 1773, dozens of disguised men, some as Indigenous Americans, boarded the three East India Company ships
• Dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.

Question 10

Why was the African-American population was not increasing at the rate of colonists?

Answer 10

• Not as much of a need for slaves in the South
• Not as much expansion westward in the South
• A agreement to work without salary (indentured servitude)
  ~ South = less slaves needed, and decreased slavery in the North
• Higher pregnancy rate/bigger families for African-American Women

Question 11

What does PEA mean?

Answer 11

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