The 13 Colonies

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• What are one of the grievances the colonists had about King George III?
• What was the Great Awakening?
• What were the various classes into which colonial society was divided?
• Why do you think colonists believed they were entitled to the rights guaranteed by the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights?
• What policies did William Penn follow in the Pennsylvania colony?
• What was the purpose of the Tea Act of 1773?
• By whose authority do the representatives at the Second Continental Congress declare the colonies "Free and Independent States?"
• In 1764 the Sugar Act is passed, what was the colonists' and Samuel Adams's response?
• What was Rhode Island the first colony to do in the USA?
• Why did many colonies favor declaring independence?
• Where did British troops hope to separate New England from the Middle States?
• What did farmers in the Middle Colonies grow?
• What was the most successful newspaper in the colonies?
• What was the main reason that colonists were motivated to change their government?
• Why was trade difficult under the Articles of Confederation?
• What role did the 13 colonies have in the British empire?
• During colonial times, what fueled the global economy?
• Why did the colonies have a representative assembly?
• What was the Albany Plan of Union?
• What did most of the Native American groups do during the American Revolution?
• Who founded the colony of Rhode Island and why?
• What body of water formed the western boundary of the the United States in 1783?
• How did King George's feelings toward the colonies change after the Boston Tea Party?
• What three Middle Colonies offered religious freedom?
• By 1750, what was the population of the colonies?
• Why do you think British General Howe wanted to capture Philadelphia?
• In the American colonies, what did a man need to have before he could vote?
• What was the movement that drove more than 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts?
• Who was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
• What present-day states were formed out of land that was part of the original 13 states?
• How did the king and Parliament view the American colonies?
• Why did colonists object to the Proclamation of 1763?
• What were some of the laws passed by colonial and state legislatures regarding slaves?
• What act gave British officials the power to combat smuggling by issuing writs of assistance during colonial times?
• What was the purpose of a Royal Governor in the original colonies?
• How many original American colonies were there?
• Which difficulty led to development of the Annapolis Convention?
• Who was the king of England when American colonists declared their independence from England?
• What was the Connecticut Compromise also known as?
• Which two colonies did William Penn settle?
• Why did Britain interfere with colonial government in the mid-1700s?
• What did the states have to do before the U.S. Constitution could take effect?
• What different types of jobs did slave in the middle colonies hold?
• Why did the colonists want English rule to end?
• Why was the government in Massachusetts Bay Colony the most radical in colonial America?
• In which area did good harbors, abundant forests rocky soil, and a short growing season most influence the colonial economy?
• Which English colony was a haven for Catholics in North America?
• What is one reason why slavery developed in the American colonies?
• How were people able to get passage to the colonies in return for a promise to work?
• What challenges do you think the colonists faced after the Treaty of Paris?
• In what ways was Bacon's Rebellion a result of social tensions in the colony of Virginia?
• What kind of society did William Penn create in Pennsylvania?
• What was the Great Awakening and how did it influence colonial independence?
• What was the primary purpose of the British when they issued the Proclamation of 1763?
• The first Africans to be brought to British North America landed in which colony in the early 1600s?
• What were the biggest crops in the Southern Colonies?
• How did the middle colonies get their name?
• Why did the British government relax rules regulating trade for the American colonies in the late 1600s?
• Before 1760, which statement best describes the colonies? Thank you so much.
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• How did the British benefited from their mercantilist relationship with the American colonies?
• What was the first colonial industry in America?
• Why did American colonists have the rights of Englishmen?
• Who founded the Maryland colony?
• What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies in the late 1730s and 1740s?
• Why did the colonists call the Coercive Acts the "Intolerable Acts"?
• What were the Navigation Acts?
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• How did women contribute to colonial economies?
• Which act took away Massachusetts's right to govern itself?
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• Who were the major non-English immigrant groups in the Middle Colonies?
• Why did the Proclamtion of 1763 anger the colonists?
• For the Proclamation of 1763, what would you think a good compromise would be betweent the colonies and England at the time?
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• Why were the middle colonies successful?
• Why is Roanoke named the lost colony?
• What were the first industries to develop in the North?
• What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?
• What was the first act that the Parliament passed in an attempt to raise revenue by taxing the American colonists?
• What is the name of the United States first constitution?
• Why were the Coercive Acts passed?
• What governing body made laws that colonists had to abide by (pre-revolution)?
• Did the Virginia colony have religious freedom?