It Happened Here
The first permanent, successful English colony was located here thanks in large part to John Smith.
Where is Jamestown, Virginia?
This colony was created to protect wealthy South Carolina from attack from Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
This was the crop that John Rolfe introduced that made Jamestown profitable.
What is tobacco?
This man attempted to unify the colonies with his Albany Plan for the Union, but it failed.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
William Penn led this group of people to the Middle Colonies in search of religious freedom.
Who were the Quakers?
The French and Indian War begin at this fort built by George Washington in western Pennsylvania.
What is Fort Necessity?
Who were the indentured servants?
This group of colonies did not rely on agriculture because its climate was too cold and soil was too rocky to grow clops.
What are the New England Colonies?
This man was known as the Father of the Constitution because he explained the document's parts and principles.
Who was James Madison?
This was the part of triangular trade that brought the slaves over from West Africa to the New World.
What was the middle passage?
New York and New Jersey were settled by this European group?
Who were the Dutch?
This religious dissenter was banned from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because she questioned the teachings of the Puritan ministers.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
This economic activity is how the French made money in the New World, west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is fur trading?
This man angered the colonists by decreeing that they could not move past the Appalachian Mountains following the French & Indian War. (Must be specific)
Who was King George III?
Clarksville's namesake, this Revolutionary War hero made life difficult for the British by expanding the war into the frontier.
Who was George Rogers Clark?
This determined how lands in the Northwest Territory would be sold following the Revolutionary War.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
Upset because the federal government under the Articles of Confederation could not pay Revolutionary War veterans, this uprising took place.
What was Shays' Rebellion?
These two cities were major centers of trade for the Middle Colonies and remain major American cities today. (You have to name both for a correct answer.)
What are Philadelphia and New York City?
This founder of Connecticut laid out one a guide for the Constitution with his Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
Who was Thomas Hooker?
This was the name of the British Act that did away with the Stamp Act but promised more taxes in the future for the colonists.
What was the Declaratory Act?
Either of the two cities whose battles marked the turning point of the French and Indian War.
What is Quebec or Montreal?
One of the two men who the British were trying to arrest when the Revolutionary War began at the Battle of Lexington & Concord.
Who were Sam Adams or John Hancock?
This was the name of the economic system practiced by the British by owning colonies and forcing those colonies to send Britain natural resources so the British could manufacture goods.
What is mercantilism?
This Puritan leader wanted his Massachusetts Bay Colony to be a "City Upon a Hill."
Who was Jonathon Winthrop?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property, ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence (though Jefferson said happiness) were ideas of this man.
Who was John Locke?