9/16 Day 1-Unit One Vocabulary- Take out one divider.

Colonies to Revolution1.Cut 9 index cards in half.

2. Tape line side down on divider, domino style.

3. Write the term on the bottom of the front of the card.

4. Draw a clue to help you with the definition5. Flip over and write definition

6. Finish for homework, due tomorrow 9/17

Mercantilism

Colonial Self Government

Learning Target: I can differentiate between the economies of the three sections of the colonies.

Tape

Mercantilism

• Economic system set up by Britain to get cheap raw materials and have markets to sell finished goods in the colonies.

Navigation Acts

• Restricted colonial trade.• Export/import through England.

Salutary Neglect

• English policy of relaxing the enforcement of regulations in its colonies.

Mayflower Compact&

Fundamental Order of Connecticut

• Colonists first attempts at self-rule, self- government and democracy.

Albany Plan of Union&

Virginia House of Burgesses• Colonists first attempts at self-rule, self-

government and democracy.

Proclamation of 1763

• Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Sugar Act

• Lowered the tax on molasses and allowed prosecutors to try smugglers.

• *Gave more power to British courts• NBD

Stamp Act

• Tax on all legal documents, licenses, newspapers, almanacs, cards and dice.

• *Big Deal, colonists lose respect for King.

Townshend Act

• Direct tax on glass, lead, paint and paper.• 3 cent tax on tea.• “No taxation without representation”.

Boston Massacre

• Propaganda used to portray the British attack on defenseless citizens.

• Five dead.

Intolerable Acts

• Martial law set up in the colonies, giving the British military control. Punished colonists that rebelled.

• *Colonists boycott

Second Continental Congress

• Approved the Declaration of Independence.• National government during the Revolutionary

War.

Olive Branch Petition

• Second Continental Congress asked King George III for peace.

• King rejects request.

Common Sense

• Pamphlet by Thomas Paine that called for the colonies to separate from Britain.

Declaration of Independence

• List of colonial grievances sent to the King and the world explaining why the colonists declared their independence.

• Written by Thomas Jefferson• 1776

Loyalists

• Colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution.

Battle at Saratoga

• Colonial victory was a turning point in Revolutionary War (1777).

• France recognized American independence (1778) and sent aid.

Treaty of Paris

• Full U.S. independence• Set boundaries-Atlantic Ocean to Mississippi

River and Canada to Florida border.• 1783