1. Geography – American Revolution Review

4. Geography

5. Early Colonies

6. Influences on Colonial Government

7. Colonial Policies

8. British Acts
And
Colonial Responses

9. American Revolution

10. British Acts &
Colonial Responses
Early
Colonies
Influences on
Colonial Gov’t
American Revolution
Geography
Colonial Policies
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Final Jeopardy

11. The future state of Maine was part of this colony
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12. What is Massachusetts?
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13. This group of colonies was know as the Breadbasket Colonies
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14. What are the Middle Colonies?
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15. This region had a long growing season and used slave labor to harvest cash crops
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16. What are the Southern Colonies?
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17. This colonial region had good harbors, abundant forests, rocky soil, and a short growing season.
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18. What are the New England Colonies?
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19. This colonial region used indentured servants as their main source of labor.
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20. What are the Middle Colonies?
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21. The largest of the thirteen colonies.
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22. What is Virginia?
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23. The first permanent English colony in the New World.
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24. What is Jamestown, Virginia?
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25. This group came to the Americas in 1629 in search of religious freedom.
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26. Who are the Puritans?
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27. This religious group came to the Americas in search of religious freedom in 1620.
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28. Who are the Pilgrims?
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29. A business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, such as establishing a colony
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30. What is a Joint Stock Company?
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31. This civilization influenced the development of New England town hall meetings
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32. What is Ancient Greece?
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33. The Enlightenment philosopher who came up with the idea of natural rights that challenged the divine right of monarchs
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34. Who is John Locke?
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35. The first written constitution in the colonies
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36. What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
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37. The first representative law making body in the colonies
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38. What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
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39. The Enlightenment thinker who developed the idea of the social contract theory that influenced the Mayflower Compact
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40. Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
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41. The transatlantic system of trade in which goods and people, including slaves, were exchanged between Africa, Europe, and the colonies of North America.
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42. What is the Triangular Trade?
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43. A failed attempt to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, for defensive purposes against Native American Attacks, suggested by Benjamin Franklin in 1754.
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44. What is the Albany Plan of Union?
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45. An economic system in which nations seek to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade.
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46. What is Mercantilism?
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47. An English policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations in its colonies in return for the colonies’ continued economic loyalty.
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48. What is Salutary Neglect?
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49. Court case that established the principle of freedom of the press, newspapers could, print sensitive, criticizing articles if they were true.
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50. What is the John Peter Zenger Trail?
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51. The dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act.
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52. What is the Boston Tea Party?
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53. A clash between British soldiers and colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists were killed.
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54. What is the Boston Massacre?
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55. An order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains following the French and Indian War
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56. What is the Proclamation of 1763?
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57. A 1765 law in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies of North America.
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58. What is the Stamp Act?
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59. A series of laws enacted in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
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60. What are the Intolerable Acts?
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61. The document, written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, in which the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the colonies independence from Britain.
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62. What is the Declaration of Independence?
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63. A pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, published in 1776, which called for separation of the colonists from Britain.
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64. What is Common Sense?
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65. The first battles between colonists and British soldiers in the American Revolution.
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66. What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
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67. The American Revolution officially ended with the signing of this document
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68. What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
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69. A group of American colonial delegates that convened in May 1775, approved the Declaration of Independence, and served as the only agency of national government during the American Revolution.
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70. What is the Second Continental Congress?
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71. American Revolution

72. Final Jeopardy!
The turning point of the American Revolutionary War, that convinced France to support the colonists in their fight for Independence.

73. What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Final Jeopardy!
What is the Battle of Saratoga?