KS 6th grade soc. st. ass. 5th grade info.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Tea Act | outraged many colonists and prompted the Boston Tea Party |
| Stamp Act | passed by British Parliament and required colonists to pay tax on every piece of paper they used, even playing cards |
| Why did Euopeans want to explore America? | looking for resources such as gold, fish, fur, gems, wood, sugar, teas, spices, as well as a quicker trade route to the East |
| Proclamation of 1763 | prohibited (stopped) settlement of whites onto Indian Territory |
| 3/5th's Compromise | an agreement between Northern and Southern states, only 3/5 of the slave population could be counted for tax purposes |
| American Revolution | a conflict between Great Britain and 13 colonies and resulted in the forming of the USA |
| Revolutinary War | the colonists defeated the British and won their independence |
| Boston Massacre | between a patriot mob throwing snowballs, sticks, and mud at British soldiers and resulted in the British soldiers killing 5 colonists or patriots |
| Taxation without Representation | a phrase that reflected the resentment of the American colonists at being taxed by the British Parliament, the colonists had representation for their needs in the colonies and they felt this was unfair since they were paying taxes |
| New England | NE part of US, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut thick forests, good natural harbors, seafood, ship building |
| Middle Colonies | New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware rich soil, rice, corn, tobacco, indigo, exported to Europe and West Indies |
| Southern Colonies | Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia (slaves did most of the work) tobacco, rice, indigo |
| Factors that Encourged European exploration | trade, expansion (making their country bigger) wealth, discovery, technology (improved ship building) |
| Patriots | name given to those who did not want to remain loyal to Great Britain |
| Loyalists | name given to those colonists who did want to remain loyal to Britain |
| Declaraton of Independence | July 4, 1776 this document was adopted and our nation was officially born declaring that we were officially free of Britain's rule |
| Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson along with 4 other men wrote this announcing the colonies separation from England |
| Bill of Rights | written by James Madison and consisted of the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution |
| Constitution | outlines the operation and central principles of American government |
| Constitutinal Convention | the convention that created the document that became the Constitution |
| Intolerable Acts | thngs done by the British that the colonists felt were wrong and an attempt to deny them representation (Tea Act, Stamp Act etc.) |
| Boston Tea Party | a result of the British Tea Act, 50 colonists dressed as Indians boarded a British ship and threw their cargo overboard |
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