Name______Desk #______Class Period______

Mrs. Adams’ STAAR Review

  1. The Colonial Era (1607-1776)
  1. The first permanent English colony to be established in North America was called ______. It was founded in the (year)______in Virginia for economic profit by the Virginia Company.
  1. The first example of representative government in the English colonies was the Virginia ______.
  1. One feature of colonial government was a(n)______.
  1. In the year ______the Pilgrims founded the colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts, for the purpose of religious freedom. Before disembarking the Mayflower, the men aboard signed the ______in which they agreed the leaders of the families would work together to make laws for the good of the colony. This is an example of self-government based upon a social contract.
  1. ______founded the colony of Connecticut.
  1. ______immigrated to the colony of Maryland to escape persecution.
  1. English colonists established their own representative institutions because of the need for a law-making structure and the distance from ______.
  1. ______led to the economic development of New York, Boston, and Charleston.
  1. The ______written by Thomas Hooker and his followers was the first written constitution in the English colonies.
  1. The ______signed by William and Mary of Orange in 1689 guaranteed certain rights to English citizens such as a trial by jury and limited the power of the government. It became a pattern later on for the Bill of Rights in the U. S. Constitution.
  1. The ______was signed by King John in 1215 and is considered the founding document of English liberties(hence, American liberties). It limited the power of the ruler (limits on government) and guaranteed certain rights to the people.
  1. England used the wealth from colonial trade to increase its wealth and power. Strict regulation of colonial trade was implemented through a series of laws known as the Navigation Acts. This type of economic policy is known as ______.
  1. Near the end of the French and Indian War in 1763 Parliament passed the ______prohibiting colonists from settling on lands west of the______, causing resentment by limits it imposed upon westward expansion.
  1. Tensions began to escalate between the colonies and England when the Parliament passed a tax, the ______, on legal documents designed to help pay the debt from the French and Indian War.
  1. Colonists protested the new taxes claiming they had no representation in Parliament. ______became the basis for their protests.
  1. Protest groups formed in the colonies such as the Sons of Liberty led by ______who also helped to form committees of correspondence designed to unite the colonies and keep them informed as to the actions of the Parliament and the king.
  1. ______opposed British policies and was the lawyer who defended the soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre. He served later as our nation’s first vice-president and second president.
  1. ______was an African American colonist who was killed in the Boston Massacre.
  1. The ______was an act of civil disobedience led by the Sons of Liberty who were protesting the Tea Act passed by the British Parliament.
  1. The ______(also known as the Coercive Acts) were passed by Parliament in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party. The response to the laws by the colonists led them to create the First Continental Congress.

TERMS

Magna CartaMayflower CompactJamestown

Thomas HookerEnglish Bill of RightsAppalachian Mountains

1607John AdamsIntolerable Acts

Proclamation of 1763Stamp ActHouse of Burgesses

Crispus Attucks1620Samuel Adams

Boston Tea PartyCatholics EnglandFundamental Orders of Connecticut

Mercantilism

No taxation without representationElected legislatureNatural harbors