Early Settlement
This is the first permanent English settlement in America.
What is Jamestown?
These were the main cash crops of the Southern Colonies. (Must get all three correct)
What is Tobacco, rice, and indigo?
The British Parliament passed these to control colonial trade and profit from it.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This officially ended the French and Indian War.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
The colony of Jamestown was founded in this year.
What is 1607?
Due to the climate in the South was better for growing cash crops this was used as the main labor force.
What is slavery (Slaves)?
This university was founded in 1636 in New England (Massachusetts Colony)
What is Harvard?
This war was fought over control of the Ohio Valley.
What is the French and Indian War?
These people helped the Jamestown settlers to survive after the colony's early struggles.
What is the Powhatan (Confederacy)?
These were the staple crops of the Middle Colonies (must get all 3)
What is Wheat, Barley, and oats?
This Native American helped the Pilgrims survive at Plymouth.
Who is Squanto?
This was passed to prevent colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Who is James Oglethorpe?
This was the journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
What is the Middle Passage?
To establish fair laws for the good of the colony the Plymouth colonists signed this document.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This revealed tensions between poor colonists and the colonial government.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This law made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians in Maryland.
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
These colonies focused on trade and shipbuilding.
What are the New England Colonies?
This ship carried the Pilgrims to North America.
What is the Mayflower?
The colonists opposed this because they believed it violated their rights since they had no representation in Parliament.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?