Exploration & Exchange
Who was the explorer that crossed the Atlantic in 1492 and reached the Americas?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
What word describes differences among people and groups?
What is diversity?
What helps people make decisions and laws for themselves?
What is self-government?
What is tax on printed materials?
What is the Stamp Act?
Who became the commander-in-chief of the continental army and is known as the "farther of our Country?"
Who is George Washington?
What battle marked the beginning of the clash armed fighting between Britain and the Colonies?
What is Lexington and Concord?
What is refusing to buy goods as a form of Protests?
What is boycott?
What three major forces drove the explorers to the seas?
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
What are the three major colonial regions?
What is New England, Middle and Southern colonies?
What is an agreement to establish rules for self-government?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What event happened when the colonists protested British taxes by dumping tea into the Boston Harbor?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Who was killed during the Boston Massacre?
Who is Crispus Attucks?
What rights are people born with?
What are Natural Rights?
What was the war fought between Britain and France?
What is the French and Indian War?
What is the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and goods between the old world and the new world?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Who agreed to work for a set amount of years in exchange for their freedom?
Who is an indentured servant?
Who was thr first President of the United States?
Who is George Washington?
What tax was placed on on sugar and molasses?
What is the Sugar Act?
What patriot leader is known for helping organize resistance to British control and taxes?
Who is Samuel Adams?
What place did the colonial army endure harsh winter conditions, but trained under George Washington?
What is Valley Forge?
What separated the colonies from Britain to announce their Independence?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Which crop traveled from the Americas to Europe?
What is potatoes?
What system treated people as property and forced them to work and never gain freedom?
What is slavery?
What was the first legislative assembly in the colonies?
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
What placed taxes on imported goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead?
What is the Townshend Act?
Who was a patriot writer that supported colonial resistance and women's rights?
Who is Mercy Otis Warren?
What word describes surrounding a place to prevent supplies or help from entering?
What is a siege?
What word describes when something is important?
What is significance?
What desire was a religious reason for colonies to be established?
What is religious freedom?
What is the act of establishing a settlement in a new area?
What is colonization?
What supported ideas about individual rights, and limits on government power?
What is the Bill of Rights?
What caused Britain to impose taxes on the colonists after the war?
What is war debt?
Who wrote their name in big bold letters on the Declaration of Independence document, and his name is still being used today as a signature?
Who is John Hancock?
What document was a peace agreement that ended the Revolutionary War?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
What prevented Colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?