Unit 1: Creating America - Test

Approximately half of all indentured servants died before earning their freedom

Indentured servants were prohibited from practicing religion in any form

Indentured servitude never attracted many people because its terms were too harsh

Indenture servitude was one of several systems used to distinguish house slaves from field slaves

Indentured servitude was the means by which most Africans came to the New World

Tobacco

Cotton

Corn

Tea

Pineapples

French and Indian War, Passage of Stamp Act, Battle of Saratoga, Inauguration of George Washington

Inauguration of George Washington, Passage of Stamp Act, Battle of Saratoga, French and Indian War

Battle of Saratoga, French and Indian War, Passage of Stamp Act, Inauguration of George Washington

Passage of Stamp Act, French and Indian War, Inauguration of George Washington, Battle of Saratoga

Created a too powerful chief executive

Denied the federal government the power to mediate disputes between states

Made it too difficult for the government to raise money through taxes and duties

Did not include a mechanism for their own amendment

Supported the abolition of slavery

Promoted public education

Practiced elements of self-government

Demanded immediate independence

A high birthrate and healthy environment resulted in a population boom in the Chesapeake region

Massachusetts settlers were entirely uninterested in expansion

Farmland in the Chesapeake area was less fertile and so more of it was needed to support sustenance farming

No Native Americans lived in the Chesapeake Bay, area and the colonist were free to expand their settlements at will

Farming of the chief Chesapeake export, tobacco, required a great deal of land

Exposed the weakness of American military leadership and paved the way for General George Washington to assume command of the Continental Army

Meant that England would renounce all future claims to French territory in North America

Was a major defeat for the rebel forces and motivated Benjamin Franklin to go to England to negotiate with the British

Demonstrated to France that the Americans might win the war and subsequently led to the Franco-American Alliance of 1778

Demonstrated the superiority of the British naval power, thus convincing the Americans to alter their strategy

The ability to compete successfully in free markets

The ability to extend and receive credit at favorable interest rates

Surplus manpower and control over raw materials

Domination of slave trade and control of shipping lanes

Control of hard currency and positive trade balance

No political leader with national stature was willing to support the plan

There was no legitimate executive power to enforce it

The plan required the Northeastern colonies to contribute a disproportionate share of the necessary troops and money

None of the colonies were willing to share tax-collecting powers with a national entity nor agree to unite together in anyway under the plan

On the Great Plains

East of the Appalachian Mountains

West of the Mississippi River

Along the Gulf Coast

Britain eventually granted the colonies representation in Parliament

Only elected British officials had the right to levy taxes

Creation of the First Continental Congress was an immediate reaction to the passage of the Stamp Act

Britain’s efforts to increase control over the colonies were not successful

Boston Massacre

French and Indian War

Battle of Saratoga

Passage of the Northwest Ordinance

Made Americans realize that excessive taxation often leads to violence

Demonstrated the strength, yet fairness, of the newly-created federal government

Demonstrated the weakness of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation

Made many Americans realize that slavery could not last

Demonstrated class antagonism, despite the absence of a landed aristocracy

Prohibit all exports of raw materials from the colonies

Encourage economic competition with the American colonies

Develop manufacturing within the colonies

Maintain a favorable balance of trade for Great Britain with its colonies

Promote colonial settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains

Limit conflict between Native American Indians and colonial settlers

Encourage colonial economic ties with France

Force French settlers to leave British territory

Urge colonists to accept the Albany Plan of Union

Provide a reason for ratification of the Constitution of the United States

Convince American colonists to declare their independence

Persuade France to aid the United States in the Revolutionary War

Ideas of John Locke

Goals of the Albany Plan of Union

Belief in the divine right of kings

Traditional separation of church and state

Medical Doctors

Scientists

Political Leaders

The Clergy

Farmers

The British cared little how the colonist lived so long as the colonies remained a productive economic asset.

Britain feared that the colonist would rebel against any substantial government force that it established.

Few members of the British elite were willing to travel to the colonies, even for the opportunity to govern.

Britain .gave the colonies a large measure of autonomy as a first step in transitioning the region to independence

The British were philosophically opposed to the concept of a powerful central government, either at home or abroad.

The new restrictions would hinder New England trade

Their rights as Englishmen were being violated

They resented quartering British troops now that the French threat was removed

They believed that if they were subjected to mercantilist restrictions they should have lower tariffs

They believed that only their colonial assemblies had the power to tax them, not the British Parliament

Proclamation of 1763

Britain

Colonist

France

American Border

Spain

Battle of Trenton

Battle of Saratoga

Battle of Yorktown

Battle of Bunker Hill

Knowing the land

Newer Weapons (not all but some)

Drive/Fighting a defense war

Numbers

Tactics

Economics

Supplies