Mid Term Study Cards Flashcards
1607 was the founding of what?
Jamestown, Virginia
The founding of settlements in the New World identifies what era?
The Colonial Era
The Plymouth colony was founded so the pilgrims could practice what?
Their religion
Who founded a refuge for Quakers?
William Penn
The Southern Colonies made their primary living on what?
Cash crops
The hands off policy of the British Government towards trade during the early to mid-1700’s was called what?
Salutary Neglect
The 13 colonies where located around what body of water?
The Atlantic Ocean
Settling near rivers provided a source of what?
Transportation
The barrier separating the colonies from the Ohio River Valley is the what?
The Appalachian Mountains
What set of colonies would you find small farms and commercial fishing?
The New England Colonies
Cold climate and poor soil made the New England Colonies rely heavily on what for income?
Trade
There was an abundance of lumber which led to what?
Ship building
Warm climate lead to a plantation economy in which states?
The Southern States
What grew in the south because of a need for a steady supply of cheap labor and labor shortages?
Slavery
The European demand for tobacco and rice contributed to the development of what?
A plantation based economy in the south
What was the reason for America to form their own representative government during the colonial era?
Because of the long distance the British Government was from the colonies
Americans wanted increased political participation so they leaned toward what type of democracy?
A representative democracy
To vote in the colonies and the newly formed United States up until the election of Jackson 1828 what did you have be/own?
You had to be a white male that owned property
Sequencing
- French and Indian War
- Stamp Act
- Boston Massacre
- American Revolution
- U.S. Constitution Written
(:
Sequencing
1: Lexington and Concord
2. Battle of Saratoga
3. Battle of Yorktown
4. Treaty of Paris 1783
(:
The Proclamation of 1763 stated you could not settle past what?
The Appalachian Mountains
Taxation without what was a major cause of the American Revolution?
Representation
Taxation without representation means that you should have the consent of what?
The people you govern
The battles of Lexington, Concord, and Saratoga would be found in what era?
American Revolution Era
The document that declared independence from Great Britain and showed the rest of the world that the colonists were justified in revolution was called the what?
The Declaration of Independence
What was the name for the rights that people are born with and can’t be taken away from them? (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness)
Unalienable Rights
The battle which is considered the turning point of the revolution and convinced the French to help the American army was?
The battle of Saratoga
What is the name of the era that may be defined with the debating the strengths and weaknesses of the AOC?
The Constitutional Era
The constitutional convention originally contended to revise what document? But ended up abolishing it and wrote a whole new constitution
The AOC
What was the first official government of the United States that provided laws such as the northwest ordinance which regulated the breaking up of western lands and had a weak central government that did not provide for w national court system.
The Articles of Confederation
Desire for a strong central government lead to the creation of what?
The U.S. Constitution
Who was the father of the constitution? He was a federalist who supported a strong central government.
James Madison
The compromise in the constitution that decided how slaves would be counted for representation in the House of Representatives for the southern states is called the what?
3/5ths Compromise
What compromise addressed representation issues concerning large populated states and small populated states. Where the House of Representatives members is based on population of the state and the senate has 2 representatives from each state.
The Great Compromise