European Exploration
The country that sponsored Christopher Columbus’s voyage in 1492
What is Spain?
This colony was founded as a safe haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This 1770 event resulted in the deaths of five colonists and was used as propaganda against the British.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This 1215 document limited the power of the English king.
What is the Magna Carta?
This was the first form of government for the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The main goal of early European explorers like Columbus was to find this
What is a faster route to Asia for trade?
The economy of the Southern Colonies was based mainly on this type of farming.
What is plantation farming or cash crops?
This 1765 law placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
This agreement signed in 1620 established self-government for the Pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Under the Articles, most power was held by these governments.
What are the state governments?
These three motives—often called the “3 G’s”—summarize why Europeans explored the New World.
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
This religious group settled in the New England Colonies seeking freedom from the Church of England.
Who were the Puritans?
Colonists protested British taxes using this famous slogan.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
This 1776 document listed grievances against King George III and declared independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Articles had this major weakness—it could not collect these from citizens.
What are taxes?
This English explorer raided Spanish ships along the west coast of North America and claimed land for England in the 1500s.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
Because of rocky soil and a harsh climate, New England colonists focused on these industries instead of large-scale farming.
What are trade, fishing, and shipbuilding?
The British passed these laws to punish Boston for the Tea Party, closing the harbor and limiting self-government.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This 1689 English document influenced the American Bill of Rights by guaranteeing basic freedoms.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This 1786 uprising of farmers showed that the national government was too weak to maintain order.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
European exploration had this devastating impact on Native American populations.
What is the spread of disease, loss of land, and cultural disruption?
Jamestown and Plymouth were both early colonies, but they were founded for these different reasons.
What are economic reasons (Jamestown) and religious freedom (Plymouth)?
These battles in 1775 marked the beginning of the American Revolution.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
These three men wrote the Federalist Papers to explain and support the U.S. Constitution.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
One success of the Articles was this law that organized new territories and banned slavery in the Northwest.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?