Top Key Terms STAAR Review

wealth, religion, expand empires, claim territory

• Representative Government
• Reasons for Exploration

Caimed Florida, Texas, California & built missions

• Spain
• France

This regions economy was based on Transatlantic Slave Trade, plantations, cash crops, fertile soil

• Northern Colonies
• Southern Colonies

A theory that British controlled colonial trade, and angered colonists

• Mercantilism
• Representative Government

Distance from Britain, Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut are reasons for the development of

• Proclamation of 1763
• Representative Government

A place for Catholics to live peacefully

• Maryland
• Virginia

The 1st anti-slavery group, lived in Pennsylvania

• Pilgrams
• Quakers

This law forbid colonists from moving west of Appalachian Mountains, angered colonists

• Proclamation of 1763
• Representative Government

Consent of the ​ ____ is a belief British should have permission by the colonists to pass taxes, main reason for American Revolution

• people
• governed

the British response to the Boston Tea Party and it increased tension between colonists and British

• Intolerable Acts
• Sugar Act