Day 1 Warm-Up: American Revolution

Claimed Florida, Texas, California, and built missions

• Quakers

• Middle colonies' economy
• Religious toleration
• Spain

To escape religious persecution, Roger Williams left Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island

• Quakers

• Middle colonies' economy
• Religious toleration
• Spain

First anti-slavery group who lived in Pennsylvania

• Quakers

• Middle colonies' economy
• Religious toleration
• Spain

Rich farmland, moderate climate, grew oats, wheat, grain, and raised livestock

• Quakers

• Middle colonies' economy
• Religious toleration
• Spain

Benjamin Franklin’s Albany Plan of Union is significant because –

• It called for the colonists to reunite with their mother country
• It stopped the abuses of the economic theory of mercantilism
• It asked for the colonists to train and prepare to fight against the mother country
• It called for the individual colonies to unite together in order to strengthen their military capabilities

What contributed to the tensions between France and the British? Select two correct answers.

• The French argued that they controlled the Ohio River Valley, not the British.
• Native Americans sided with the British due to their trade relationship.
• British parliament tried to forcibly remove the French from North America.
• The Ohio River Valley had abundant resources that both countries wanted to control.

Why did the Native Americans side with the French? Select two correct answers.

• The French didn’t try to take their land.
• Native Americans just wanted to trade and live in peace.
• British parliament tried to forcibly remove the French from North America.
• The Ohio River Valley had abundant resources that both countries wanted to control.

What does the image represent -

• It called for the colonists to reunite with their mother country
• It stopped the abuses mercantilism
• It symbolizes the individual colonies to uniting together in order to defeat the French.
• It asked for the colonists to train and prepare to fight against the mother country

This list describes British trade policies during the colonial era.

How did these policies contribute to tensions between Britain and the colonies?

• They encouraged colonial self-government.

• They increased colonial dependence on British goods.

• They led to increased smuggling by colonists.

• The allowed the colonies to form alliances with other countries.

Why was the Virginia House of Burgesses significant to U.S. history?

• It contributed to the growth of slavery.

• It created the first representative legislative body in the colonies.

• It granted religious freedom to settlers in Virginia.

• It gave colonial women the right to vote.