Colonial America
This colony was founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that people are born with natural rights, including life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This 1770 event occurred when British soldiers fired on a group of colonists in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
This was America's first national government and created a very weak central government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This colonial region was known for its cold climate, rocky soil, fishing, shipbuilding, and trade.
What are the New England Colonies?
This religious movement encouraged colonists to question traditional religious authority and emphasized a personal relationship with God.
What is the Great Awakening?
Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor because they opposed British taxation and the Tea Act. What event was this?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This was the location of the first shots of the Revolutionary War, often called the "shots heard around the world."
What are Lexington and Concord?
This rebellion by Massachusetts farmers demonstrated weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This economic system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the exchange of goods and enslaved people.
What is Triangular Trade?
These workers agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for passage, housing, or other benefits.
Who are indentured servants?
Colonists heavily protested this 1765 tax by boycotting British goods and arguing that Parliament could not tax them without representation.
What is the Stamp Act?
This American victory convinced France to officially join the war and support the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This principle prevents any one branch of government from becoming too powerful by allowing each branch to limit the others.
What are checks and balances?
This colony was established by Puritans and developed a government in which religious beliefs strongly influenced colonial society and political life.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
This document, created by the Pilgrims before settling at Plymouth, established an agreement to work together and create their own government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This petition was sent to King George III by the Continental Congress as a last attempt to reach a peaceful solution.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
At this battle, American and French forces surrounded Cornwallis while French naval forces prevented British help from reaching him.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
These two groups disagreed over whether the Constitution should be ratified and how powerful the national government should be.
Who are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
This type of crop was especially important to the Southern Colonies because it was grown primarily to be sold for profit rather than to feed the people who grew it.
What is a cash crop?
This term describes the practice of Britain loosely enforcing its colonial laws, allowing the colonies to develop greater independence.
What is salutary neglect?
These two groups represented opposing colonial views: one wanted to remain loyal to Britain, while the other supported independence.
Who are Loyalists and Patriots?
This harsh winter encampment tested the Continental Army's endurance, but it also became an important period of training that helped make Washington's army more disciplined.
What is Valley Forge?
This compromise counted a fraction of a state's enslaved population when determining representation in Congress.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?