Who is it?
Where is it?
What is it?
Why did it happen?
What does it mean?
100
British general who surrendered to the Patriots at Yorktown, VA in 1781.
What is Lord General Charles Cornwallis?
100
The Triangular Trade occurred between these 3 continents.
Where are Europe, America, and Africa?
100
A law written in 1764 which put a tax on sugar and molasses and prevented colonists from trading freely.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
This event took place in 1773 as a protest to the Tea Act, and caused parliament to pass the Coercive Acts, closing the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
Agreed friendship and support of 2 countries, such as the Patriots and France during the American Revolution
What is an alliance?
200
A group of English people who settled in Massachusetts after they separated from the Anglican church.
What are Puritans?
200
Under the Dutch, this area was called New Amsterdam.
Where is New York City?
200
Early battle of the American Revolution where colonists stood at the top of the hill and shot Red Coats when they saw the whites of their eyes.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
200
Scientists believe that climate change caused Native Americans to come to America in this way.
What is walking over a landbridge?
200
Someone who takes money to fight a war for another country, such as the Hessians.
What is a mercenary?
300
Leader of the Continental Army who led the Patriots to victory in the Revolutionary War.
Who is George Washington?
300
The Proclamation of 1763 angered colonists because it forbid them to move here.
Where is the Ohio Valley (or past the Appalachian Mountains)?
300
An agreement between pilgrims that promised to create a fair government in America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
300
One reason colonists thought they could be free was because they had demonstrated they could protect themselves in this war from 1754-63.
What is the French and Indian War?
300
The sudden, radical change from one way of doing things (such as running your government) to another.
What is a revolution?
400
Its members included Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Paul Revere who organized propaganda, boycotts, and the Boston Tea Party.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
400
William Penn wanted equality for all people when he founded this middle colony.
Where is Pennsylvania?
400
A route that English, Dutch, and French explorers tried to find that would easily get them from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean.
What is the Northwest Passage?
400
In 1770, 5 colonists threw rocks at British soldiers, resulting in this.
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
When people are forced to work under horrible conditions without being paid. This happened in America mostly to people stolen from Africa.
What is slavery?
500
Part of the reason why the Jamestown colony succeeded was because this man married the Indian princess Pocahontas.
Who is John Rolfe?
500
The first battle of the American Revolution took place in these 2 Massachusetts towns in April 1775.
Where are Lexington and Concord?
500
A document signed on July 4, 1776 that allowed Patriots to ask other countries for help.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
2 strengths of the Patriots.
What is knowledge of the land, a cause, George Washington, and an alliance with France?
500
A statement or announcement.
What is a declaration?
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