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8th Grade Social Studies

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establishment of the 13 colonies, religious freedom, representative government Colonial Era
Proclamation of 1763, Intolerable Acts, Stamp Act, Colonists Having to House British Soldiers Causes of the American Revolution
Proclamation of 1763 Colonists were forbidden to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
Quartering Act Colonists were forced to house British soldiers
French Explorers traded furs with the Native Americans
Spanish Explorers Came to find gold and spread Catholicism
Northwest Passage a new sea route that led to Asia
distance from Great Britain, need for law making structure, and traditional rights of Englishmen Causes that led the 13 colonies to establish their own representative government
Because of "salutary neglect" the 13 colonies established a tradition of self government
Virginia House of Burgesses the first colonial assembly of elected representatives
Mayflower Compact was a social contract, majority rules, and was an example of self government
Because of slow communication with the British government self-government developed in the 13 colonies
John Locke, Thomas Hooker, and Charles de Montesquieu helped influence the ideas of self government in the 13 colonies
New England Colonies cold climate, dense forests, natural harbors, shipbuilding, fishing, fur trapping and trading
Middle Colonies moderate climate, known as the bread basket colonies
Southern Colonies warm climate, longer growing season, grew cash crops like tobacco on large plantations, started using slave labor
Transatlantic Slave Trade Millions of people from Africa were forced to work as slaves in the Americas
Mercantilism The idea that the 13 colonies existed to benefit the mother country (England). It definitely limited how much business the 13 colonies could do.
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