Unit 1.1 - 1.5 ✔️

Question 1

Crops grown to be sold for a profit

Answer 1

Cash crop

Question 2

Food crops

Answer 2

Cereal crop

Question 3

The growing of stuff on plantations

Answer 3

Plantation Agriculture

Question 4

The government controls trade in order to maintain a “favorable balance of trade”. Goal is to keep more silver and gold coming in than going out.

Answer 4

Mercantilism

Question 5

When Britain tried to force colonies to only trade with Britain

Answer 5

Navigation acts

Question 6

The war between britain and france that ended with britain winning at the cost of massive debts.

Answer 6

French and Indian war

Question 7

Unofficial policy of relaxed royal control over colonial trade and only weak enforcement of Naviation Laws. (1688-1763)

Answer 7

Salutary Neglect

Question 8

Britain said that Americans couldn’t cross over the Appalachian mountains

Answer 8

Proclamation of 1763

Question 9

Required colonists to provide food and quarters for British troops. Colonists resented this act, believing that it infringed on their natural rights.

Answer 9

Quartering Act of 1765

Question 10

Act that gave monopoly to British east india company for tea

Answer 10

Tea Act, 1773 (British East India Company)

Question 11

Taxes on paper goods such as cards

Answer 11

Stamp Act of 1765

Question 12

When americans threw tea into the sea as a form of protest against the tea act

Answer 12

Boston Tea Party, 1773

Question 13

convention of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies that convened in Philidelphia to craft a response to the Intolerable acts. Delegates established the association which called for a complete boycott of British goods.

Answer 13

First continental congress 1774

Question 14

Thomas Paine’s pamphlet urging the colonies to declare independence and establish a republican government. The widely read pamphlet helped convince colonists to support the Revolution

Answer 14

Common Sense

Question 15

formal pronouncement of independence drafted by Thomas Jefferson and approved by the Congress. The declaration allowed Americans to appeal for foreign aid and served as an inspiration for later revolutionary movements world wide.

Answer 15

Declaration of Independence

Question 16

Fundamental rights that every person is born with, including life, liberty, and property

Answer 16

Natural Rights

Question 17

The idea that people give up some of their rights to be governed. However, if the government doesn’t do its job, the people have the right to remove it.

Answer 17

Social contract

Question 18

Legislative, judicial, executive branches

Answer 18

3 Branches of government

Question 19

States set a due date in the future where all enslaved people would be free. (or a thing were slaves born after a certain date would be free)

Answer 19

Gradual emancipation

Question 20

All slaves freed immediately, and slavery abolished outright.

Answer 20

Abolition

Question 21

Release from slavery (by owner)

Answer 21

Manumission

Question 22

1 house system.

Answer 22

Unicameral

Question 23

Two house system.

Answer 23

Bicameral

Question 24

original governing document

Answer 24

Articles of Confederation

Question 25

An armed uprising of western Massachusetts debtors seeking lower taxes and an end to property foreclosures in 1786. Though quickly put down, the insurrection inspired fears of “mob rule” among leading Revolutionaries.

Answer 25

Shays’ Rebellion

Question 26

The time of great instability between the end of the revolutionary war and the inauguration of George Washington.

Answer 26

Critical period

Question 27

Representative body of delegates from all thirteen colonies. Drafted the declaration of independence and managed the colonial war effort

Answer 27

Second continental congress 1775 - 1781