American Settlement
This colony was founded primarily for economic profit and the development of cash crops.
What is Jamestown?
This Native leader was also known as King Philip.
Who is Metacomet?
In 1750, this European power controlled Canada.
What is France?
This colonial attorney defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
These two battles marked the beginning of open armed conflict between Britain and the colonies.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This document, signed aboard the Mayflower, reflected early self-government through consent of the governed.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
After this slave uprising, colonial leaders passed the Negro Act of 1740.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This young Virginia militia officer is often said to have helped spark the French and Indian War in the Ohio River Valley.
Who is George Washington?
These committees helped organize communication and coordinate colonial resistance to British policies.
What are the Committees of Correspondence?
The Second Continental Congress sent this document to King George III in 1775 in a final attempt to avoid full war.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This Quaker founder is most closely associated with Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
This rebellion in Virginia began largely because frontier settlers believed colonial leaders were failing to protect them during conflicts with Native tribes.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This British colonial leader became known for strong alliances with Native groups, especially the Iroquois Confederacy.
Who is William Johnson?
This phrase summed up the colonial complaint that Britain should not tax them without giving them elected representation in Parliament.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
This battle is considered the major turning point of the Revolution because it convinced France to form an alliance with the American colonies.
What is Saratoga?
Up until the ban of the Atlantic slave trade in the early 1800s, most enslaved Africans transported across the Atlantic came from this region.
What is West Africa?
King Philip’s War was fought largely in which colony?
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
This British Prime Minister increased support and resources for the war effort in North America.
Who is William Pitt?
This member of the Virginia House of Burgesses is most famous for delivering the speech, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Who is Patrick Henry?
At Yorktown, this American figure became especially known for leading an assault on a British position.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
What does ownership of a small farm mean in the colonial era?
What is freedom?
Benjamin Franklin’s famous “Join, or Die” cartoon first urged colonial unity during this mid-18th-century conflict, not the Revolution most students associate it with.
What is the French & Indian War?
In Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, the same man whose legend later dominates the Revolution first tasted failure in this hastily built fort during the opening of the French and Indian War.
In John Adams, the titular protagonist's defense of the Boston Massacre soldiers shows his commitment to this principle, even when public anger demanded vengeance instead.
What is the right to a fair trial?
In Hamilton, he is dismissed by King George III as “that little man who spoke to me all those years ago,” a jab aimed at this future president.
Who is John Adams?