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Social Studies ILTS 305 Questions and Verified
Solutions 100- Correct Already Graded A+
Colonial period - (answers)Time when European countries attempted to settle
and colonize the Americas
Who attempted to colonize the earliest? - (answers)Spain and France
What was the main focus of the colonial period? - (answers)13 English colonies
What were the primary reasons for English colonization in the Americas? -
(answers)Response to England's mercantilism
Colonists' desire to be free from religious persecution
Mercantilism - (answers)Required colonies to provide raw materials to England to
continue to grow and support the mother country (England) while limiting trade
with other nations
13 colonies - (answers)Group of English colonies that shared political and religious
beliefs:
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Virginia
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Maryland
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
New England Colonies - (answers)Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Chesapeake Bay Colonies - (answers)Virginia
Maryland
Middle Colonies - (answers)New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
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Southern Colonies - (answers)North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
French and Indian War - (answers)War over territory between the English
colonies and the French colonies
Treaty of Paris (French and Indian War) - (answers)Ended the French and Indian
war in 1763
Why did tensions rise between the colonies and England after the French and
Indian War? - (answers)Because of unequal investment in the War
British funded the war while English fought and served in monarchy's interests
What happened after the French and Indian War? - (answers)Intolerable Acts
(English)
Coercive Acts (Britain)
What was the purpose of the Intolerable Acts? - (answers)To make the colonists
dependent on Britain
What taxes did the British impose on the colonies? - (answers)Stamp Acts, Tea
Acts, Quartering Acts
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American Revolution - (answers)Revolution of the American colonies against
Great Britain in response to particular tax laws that were passed
Sons of Liberty - (answers)Protest group headed by Samuel Adams that incited
the Revolution
Boston Massacre - (answers)First bloodshed of American Revolution
British soldiers fired on crowd and killed 5 people
March 5, 1770
Committees of Correspondence - (answers)Set up throughout colonies to transmit
revolutionary ideas and create a unified response
The Boston Tea Party - (answers)Sons of liberty dressed as Mohawks dumped tea
into the harbor from a British ship to protest the tea tax
December 6, 1773
First Continental Congress - (answers)Delegates from all colonies except Georgia
met to discuss problems with Britain and to promote independence
1774
The Shot Heard Around the World - (answers)Fight between English soldiers and
Minutemen in Lexington, Massachusetts
Larger group of Minutemen in Concord forced British to retreat
Social Studies ILTS 305 Questions and Verified
Solutions 100- Correct Already Graded A+
Colonial period - (answers)Time when European countries attempted to settle
and colonize the Americas
Who attempted to colonize the earliest? - (answers)Spain and France
What was the main focus of the colonial period? - (answers)13 English colonies
What were the primary reasons for English colonization in the Americas? -
(answers)Response to England's mercantilism
Colonists' desire to be free from religious persecution
Mercantilism - (answers)Required colonies to provide raw materials to England to
continue to grow and support the mother country (England) while limiting trade
with other nations
13 colonies - (answers)Group of English colonies that shared political and religious
beliefs:
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Virginia
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Maryland
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
New England Colonies - (answers)Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Chesapeake Bay Colonies - (answers)Virginia
Maryland
Middle Colonies - (answers)New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
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Southern Colonies - (answers)North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
French and Indian War - (answers)War over territory between the English
colonies and the French colonies
Treaty of Paris (French and Indian War) - (answers)Ended the French and Indian
war in 1763
Why did tensions rise between the colonies and England after the French and
Indian War? - (answers)Because of unequal investment in the War
British funded the war while English fought and served in monarchy's interests
What happened after the French and Indian War? - (answers)Intolerable Acts
(English)
Coercive Acts (Britain)
What was the purpose of the Intolerable Acts? - (answers)To make the colonists
dependent on Britain
What taxes did the British impose on the colonies? - (answers)Stamp Acts, Tea
Acts, Quartering Acts
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American Revolution - (answers)Revolution of the American colonies against
Great Britain in response to particular tax laws that were passed
Sons of Liberty - (answers)Protest group headed by Samuel Adams that incited
the Revolution
Boston Massacre - (answers)First bloodshed of American Revolution
British soldiers fired on crowd and killed 5 people
March 5, 1770
Committees of Correspondence - (answers)Set up throughout colonies to transmit
revolutionary ideas and create a unified response
The Boston Tea Party - (answers)Sons of liberty dressed as Mohawks dumped tea
into the harbor from a British ship to protest the tea tax
December 6, 1773
First Continental Congress - (answers)Delegates from all colonies except Georgia
met to discuss problems with Britain and to promote independence
1774
The Shot Heard Around the World - (answers)Fight between English soldiers and
Minutemen in Lexington, Massachusetts
Larger group of Minutemen in Concord forced British to retreat
