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mogea s. s
mogea social studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| New England Colonies: states, trade, life | NH, CT, RI, and MA; largely founded to escape religious persecution, economy centered around fishing, ship building, and trade with small farms and lumber mills, life largely in towns and cities, most for eng. and scotland |
| Mid-Atlantic colonies: states, trade, life | NY, NJ, PA, DE, settlers from various countries, major crop producers |
| Southern colonies: states, trade, life | MD, VA, SC, NC, and GA, agriculture-long growing season, economy based on large labor intensive plantations, slavery and indentured servents |
| Navigation acts | 1651, attempt by britain to dominate international trade, banned foriegn ships from transporting goods to brit. colonies |
| molassess acts | 1733, required colonists to pay high duties to britain on molasses acquired from other colonies |
| triangular trade | ships went to africa with run and traded for gold and slaves, from africa to west indies trading slaves for sugar, molasses or money, return to colonies with sugar or molasses to make more rum, violated molasses act |
| French and Indian war | 1754, ended frances reign as colonial power in North America, costs incurred by britain were relayed onto colonists, sparking revolution |
| Contributing factors to american revolution | *britain levied taxes to pay for war * different govt. structures * more colonists born in America thus not as much loyaty to king *sense of indep by colonists because of self gov *resentful of british control |
| Boston Massacre | mar 5 1770, shots fired by british troops into crowd kills five, injures 8 most of townshend acts repealed |
| Boston TEa Party | dec 1773, protest of the tea tax levied on the colonists |
| Coercive acts | 1774, to punish MA to defience, shut down ports in Boston until value of tea paid back, local govt appointed instead of elected, british soldiers trials moved to england, local required to provide lodging for soldiers |
| 1st continental congress | sept 5 1774, 55 delegates from 12 colonies, goal: to achieve peaceful agreement with brit. affirmed loyalty, but demanded acts be repealed and instituted trade embargo until they were |
| battles of Lexington and concord | apr 19 1775, king george ordered military dispersal of MA assembly |
| 2nd continental congress | may 10 1775, philadelphia, centered on defense and declaring independence, army established and G. Washington named commander in chief |
| battle of bunker hill | june 1775, bloodiest battle, amer. troops withdrew, but brit. lost 1/2 of army |
| Battle in trenton NJ | 12/26/1776, washington crossed deleware on christmas and surprised troops |
| Saratoga | turning point of war, ended paln to separate NE colonies from south, Gen Burgoyne surrenders leading France to join war |
| Battle of Yorktown | 10/19/1781, Cornwallis surrenders, end of war |
| Treaty of Paris | signed 9/3/1783, Brit. regognized US as independent, established Miss. River as western border, returned FL to spain |
| Articles of Confederation | precursor to Constitution, passes 11/1777, into effect 3/1781, prevented central govt from gaining too much power, congressional body with delegates from all states |
| Constitution | May 1787- drafted, strong central govt with balances of power, final power belonging to citizen votes |
| Federalists | wanted strong central govt, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison |
| Anti-Federalists | didn't want central govt to have too much power over the states, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry |
| Bill of rights | 1st 10 constitutional amendments protecting basic freedoms |
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