People
The first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington
The first English settlement in North America.
Where is Jamestown?
To movement of people or animals from one region to another.
What is Migration?
This war was fought for the colonist independence from England.
What is the Revolutionary War?
The name given to the colonist fight for freedom from England.
Who were the Patriots?
This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items.
What is the Stamp Act?
First Viking to land in North America.
Who is Leif Erickson?
This is where the Continental Congress meet.
Where is Philadelphia, Penn?
A document giving permission to start a colony.
What is a charter?
This was the location of the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
Where is Lexington?
What is the first college founded in North America?
What is Harvard?
This act put a tax on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea.
What is the Townsend Act?
Plants grown for trade and profit.
What are cash crops?
This is where the Pilgrims landed when they arrived in North America.
Where is Plymouth Rock?
This young person learns a skilled trade such as blacksmithing, weaving, ship building or printing.
What is an apprentice?
The French and Indian War was really between these two countries.
What is England and France?
Pilgrims arrived on this ship.
What is the Mayflower?
The English Parliament passed this act to punish the colonist for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This Native American married John Rolfe.
Who is Pocahontas?
The Paleo-Indians crossed this to migrate into North America.
What is the Bering Land Bridge
Soldiers who fought for pay not loyalty.
What are mercenaries?
Benedict Arnold captured this fort from the British.
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
Which colony did not attend the first Continental Congress.
What is Georgia?
This act required colonists to house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act.
This person said “give me liberty or give me death”.
Who was Patrick Henry?
This city in North America is known for the witch trail.
Where is Salem?
A set of basic principles and laws that state the powers and duties of the government.
What is a constitution?
This side won the battle of Bunker Hill, but lost the most soldiers.
Who are the British (Redcoats)?
The nickname for the British soldiers.
What are the Redcoats?
What was added to the Constitution to appease the AntiFederalists.
What are the Bill of Rights?
Who rode to warn the British were coming?
Who is Paul Revere?
Where was the treaty signed for the end of the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War?
Where is Paris France?
This is the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
This was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This document set the beliefs on which Americans thought government should be based such as the importance of laws to protect individual rights of citizens.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This act provided some religious freedom to the colonists.
What is the Toleration Act?