American Revolution Week 1 Vocabulary Quiz

agreement signed by Pilgrims establishing a “social contract” of self-government in the colonies

• Mayflower compact
• Mercantilism

• Representative Government

• Declaration of Independence

economic theory that a country’s strength is measured by the amount of gold it has and that the colonies exist for the benefit of the Mother Country

• Mercantilism
• Federalist Party

• Intolerable Acts

• Navigation Acts

fertile soil, warm climate, cash crops; Transatlantic Slave Trade provided slave labor for plantations; founded mainly for economic reasons; Jamestown, Virginia

• Southern Colonies
• Middle Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Northern Colonies

first representative assembly in the new world

• House of burgesses
• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

forbid the colonists to expand west of the Appalachian Mountains following the French and Indian War

• Proclamation of 1763
• Treaty of Paris of 1763

• Constitution of the United States

• Quakers

founded for Catholics seeking religious freedom

• Maryland
• North Carolina

• New York

• Georgia

New England colony; Puritans/Pilgrims founded for religious freedom

• Massachusetts
• New Jersey

• South Carolina

• Virginia

rich farmland, moderate climate, grew oats, wheat, grain (Bread Basket) and raised livestock

• Middle Colonies
• Southern Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Northern Colonies

rocky soil, cold climate, harbors, fishing, lumber, and shipbuilding; founded for religious freedom

• New England Colonies
• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Northern Colonies

system of government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

• Representative Government
• Religious Toleration

• Mercantilism

• Limited Government