Geography of New England colonies

Rocky soil and cold winters led to sustenance farming and shipping and fishing industries.

Reason for founding Virginia

Founded to seek wealth and build money making businesses

Reason for founding Massachusetts

Founded for religious freedom and to escape religious persecution

Reason for sending enslaved people to Southern colonies

To provide cheap labor for plantations growing cash crops.

Path traveled by enslaved people to the new world

Middle Passage (the middle leg of the triangular trade)

Region focused on agrarian activities

The South due to fertile soil and warm weather.

Geography of Southern colonies

Fertile soil, warm and humid climate.

Unofficial policy of neglect towards colonists

Salutary Neglect, one of the causes of self-government in the colonies.

Geographic factor leading to self-government

Distance, one of the causes of self-government in the colonies.

Significance of the Virginia House of Burgesses

First colonial representative legislature.

Significance of the Mayflower Compact

First self-government in the colonies.

Significance of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

The first constitution in the colonies.

Definition of a civil body

A group of people who combine together to form a political group or government.

Commonality of Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

Both were kicked out of Puritan Massachusetts for valuing religious freedom.

Important US value established by Anne and Roger

Establishing the value of religious freedom in America.

Point of mercantilism

Money for Mother, trade only occurred between the colonies and Britain.

Significance of Thomas Hooker

His Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was the first constitution in the colonies.

How mercantilism contributed to American Revolution

By making colonists mad that they could only legally trade with Britain.

How French and Indian War contributed to American Revolution

By creating debt for Britain that caused taxes on the colonists to increase.

A line in the Appalachian Mountains that colonists could not settle west of.

Reason for new taxes starting in 1763

All 'Acts' were taxes to pay for the French and Indian War.

British response to the Boston Tea Party

The Intolerable (or Coercive) Acts.

US response to the Intolerable Acts

Establishing the First Continental Congress.

Purpose of the First Continental Congress

Discussing unified resistance to the intolerable acts.

Definition of unalienable rights

Rights that cannot be taken away.

Main reasons colonists were upset with King George III

No taxation without representation.

Written by Thomas Paine, detailed reasons colonists should be upset with KG3.

Significance of the battle of Saratoga

Turning point in the American Revolution.

Main result of the Treaty of Paris of 1783

Recognized the US as an independent nation.

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Northwest Passage

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An all water route to Asia for trade across the northern US

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Three G's of exploration

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God, Gold, Glory

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Meaning of God in the Three G's

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Spread Christianity

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Meaning of Gold in the Three G's

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Increase Wealth

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Meaning of Glory in the Three G's

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Expand Empires

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Primary goal of Spanish colonization

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Focused on building Catholic missions

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Primary goal of French exploration

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Focused mostly on fur trading

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