Colonial settlements
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia, which underwent a difficult period called "The Starving Time."
What is Jamestown?
This 1765 act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
Gage leads 700 soldiers to confiscate colonial weapons and arrest Adams and Hancock at these two locations.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This author wrote Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
: A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This word was carved into a tree and was the only clue to the fate of settlers who disappeared from Roanoke Island.
What is Croatoan?
This act required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.
What is the Quartering Act?
This battle contested control of two hills overlooking Boston Harbor. Though the British took the hill, they suffered heavy casualties.
What is Bunker Hill?
Sam Adams wrote this in 1768 opposing taxation without representation and calling for the colonists to unite in their actions against the British government.
What is the Circular Letter?
This 1770 incident occurred when British troops fired on and killed American colonists in front of a Customs House.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This English explorer helped found Jamestown and implemented the "Work or Starve" policy.
Who is John Smith?
These 1767 acts brought harsh taxes on goods like glass, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The turning point of the American Revolution, this battle was a massive win for the colonists and motivated the French to form an alliance.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This French foreign minister sent emissaries to explore the American colonists' commitment to independence.
Who is Vergennes?
This planter led a rebellion with one thousand other Virginians in 1676; the rebels were mostly frontiersmen forced toward the backcountry in search of fertile land.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown who married Pocahontas.
Who is John Rolfe?
This 1766 act declared that Parliament had the power to tax the colonies both internally and externally, and had absolute power over the colonial legislatures.
What is the Declaratory Act?
The last major battle of the Revolutionary War where Cornwallis and his troops were trapped in the Chesapeake Bay by the French fleet.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This stern Prussian drillmaster taught American soldiers how to successfully fight the British at Valley Forge.
Who is Baron von Steuben?
These vigilante groups were active in the 1760s and 1770s in the western parts of North and South Carolina, violently protesting high taxes and insufficient representation.
Who are the Regulators?
This Puritan governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony was the speaker of "City upon a hill."
Who is John Winthrop?
Four British acts of 1774 meant to punish Massachusetts for the destruction of three shiploads of tea, known in America as the Intolerable Acts.
What are the Coercive Acts?
Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778, where a fourth of troops died from disease and malnutrition.
What is Valley Forge?
This 17th century English philosopher opposed the Divine Right of Kings and asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
wave of religious revivals in Europe and America from 1739-1744 that placed renewed emphasis on vital religious faith.
What is the Great Awakening?