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U.S. history regents
Question | Answer |
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magna carta | documents signed by king in 1215 limiting his power. |
parliament | assembly of representatives, legislative authority,brought to attention the needs of their towns/cities/areas. |
Mayflower Compact | named after the boat. agreed rules of the new land. first self governed colony. big English companies owned each colony. |
house of burgesses | people that work for the company that owned that colony. all selected not elected. |
Proclamation Line of 1763 | Line drawn along western border of 13 colonies to protect colonists from conflict with Native Americans |
French and Indian War | War between Britain and France (and their Native American allies) for control of Ohio River Valley. Britain won |
Features of Southern Colonies | Flat, Open, Good Soil, Long growing season, Made $ from crops like tobacco |
Features of New England Colonies | Mountains, Forest, Rocky Soil, Short Growing Season, Pilgrims lived there for Religious freedom |
Mercentalism | Britain took raw materials from America, turned it into finished goods, and sold it back to Americans for big $$ |
Triangular Trade | 1)Goods from Europe went to Africa, where they were traded for Slaves. 2)Slaves went to America, where the were traded for tobacco and molasses, which were then 3)traded back to Britain |
Boundary of 13 Colonies | Appalachian Mountains to West Atlantic Ocean to East |
Quartering Act/Stamp Act/ Sugar Act | brits housed in americans homes/colonists had to buy stamps to put on anything they sold that was paper/taxed sugar and wine |
Boston Massacre | frustrated colonists threw snowballs at troops, then they began shooting, bunch of people died |
Boston Tea Party | british taxed tea, so the colonists went on the brits boats and threw over all of their tea into the ocean in protest |
Intolerable Acts | brits angered from boston tea party, so they sent over troops to the colonies, and made a bunch of laws regulating the colonist's freedom |