Exploration and Settlement in North America
This colony was the first attempt at permanent settlement in the Americas.
Roanoke Colony
This term means one who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or ruler.
Rebel
What major river runs through Louisiana and was hard to conquer?
What is the Mississippi River?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence
What is Thomas Jefferson
Where was the Constitutional Convention held? (Place)
What is Philadelphia?
This celebration occurred after the first successful year in the world for the Jamestown colony.
Thanksgiving.
Which cash crop was famous in the southern colonies?
Cotton, Indigo, Sugar, Tobacco
Who discovered New Orleans?
What is Bienville?
On December 16, 1773, this protest happened along the Boston harbor.
The Boston Tea Party
Who is the father of the Constitution?
Who is James Madison?
Natives banded together and created this to keep out the colonists.
Alliances.
This colonial region was known for its bread making and basket weaving.
The middle colonies.
This set of laws was only for free people of color and slaves in the Louisiana Colony.
What is Code Noir?
Which act had a tax on almost all printed materials
This amendment states you have the right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
Where was the first colony formed? (What is the state name)
Virgina
The main economic source in the New England colonies was?
Shipbuilding and Fishing
The government is known for harsh punishments against guilty criminals.
What is Bloody O'Reilly.
This woman disguised herself as a man to help fight against the British in the American Revolution
What is Debroah Sampson?
This group of people was against the Bill of Rights being added to the U.S. Constitution.
What is Federalist?
What was the main purpose of European Explorations of the New World?
God, Gold, Glory
This part of the Triangle Trade was the kidnapping and enslaving of Africans from West Africa.
The middle passage.
Name the treaty France signed that gave the rights of the Louisiana colony to Spain?
Treaty of Fontainebleau
This U.S. Army general helped the colonists gain their freedom in the American Revolution.
What is Geroge Washington
The Constitution provides a separation of powers for our government. What does that mean?
Each branch has different and separate powers