Hard History Unit 2 and Cause and Effect
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1585 | Roanoke (the date) |
| Jamestown | the first English colony in America, formed in 1607. |
| Magna Carta | an agreement written in 1215 between King John and the rebellious barbarians that gave rights to freedom to "all people." This was the first code of law. king cant tax w/out consent of the nobles. further limits power of monarch |
| proprietary colony | a type of charter; a colony owned by a person after recieving a land grant from a king. (usually the king owes them a favor so he lets them have the land) |
| join stock colony | a colony founded for the purpose of making people money (Jamestown) |
| 1607-1754 | salutary neglect (date) |
| Rocky mountains, cool-temperatured, & has coastline and therefore ports. Since its rocky the people can't farm so instead they do subsistence farming, trading, and shipbuilding. | New England Colonies: (climate, landscape, economy) |
| mild climate mostly flat, rolling hills. FARM corn & grains. nicknamed the "Breadbasket." | Middle Colonies: (climate, landscape, economy) |
| hot flat land. So they do commercial farming. They have cash crops and grow: tobacco, indigo, and rice. But it is a lot of work | Southern Colonies: (climate, landscape, economy) |
| a direct tax on legal documents, dice, playing cards, all pieces of paper. | Stamp Act |
| An indirect tax on glass, lead, paper and tea. | Townshend Acts |
| Part of the Townshend Acts | Writs of Assistance |
| 1773 | Tea Act (date) |
| In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British 1. Close the Boston Harbor 2. Then impose military rule on Boston (means soldiers rule Boston) 3. Disassemble the colonial assembly | Intolerable Acts |
| propaganda | when you take an angle and you use it convince people of something that happened |
| Boston Tea Party | What was in response to the Tea Act? |
| minutemen | in response to intolerable acts, other colonies came together and formed groups of miltia that could get ready for battle in one minute |
| New Hampshire (NH), Massachusetts (MA), Rhode Island (RI), Connecticut (CT) | New England Colonies |
| New York (NY), Pennsylvania (PA), New Jersey (NJ), Delaware (DE) | Middle Colonies |
| Maryland (MD), Virginia (VA), North Carolina (NC), South Carolina (SC), Georgia (GA) | Southern Colonies |
| 1607 | Jamestown (date) |
| 1215 | Magna Carta (date) |
| Intolerable Acts | what was in response to the Boston Tea Party? |
| minutemen | What was in response to the Intolerable Acts? |
| first continental congress | what was a second thing that was in response to the Intolerable Acts? |
| second continental congress | What was in response to Lexington and Concord? |
| constitutional convention | what was the response to Shay's Rebellion? |
| new constitution | what was the response to the constitutional convention |
| 1620 | date Plymouth was founded |
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