People & Places
This English settler helped Jamestown survive and mapped the area; he famously said work or don’t eat.
John Smith
The compact the Pilgrims wrote to establish order and self-government aboard their ship.
Mayflower Compact
The main Jamestown cash crop that became Virginia’s economic foundation.
Tobacco
The local army of a colony made up of ordinary citizens.
militia
The first people arrived in North America by crossing this land bridge linking Asia to Alaska.
Land bridge
The Virginian who declared, “Give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
The pamphlet written to encourage independence from Britain.
Common Sense
Farmers who grew only enough food to feed their families were called these.
Subsistence farmers
The British general who led forces to capture Quebec City during the French & Indian War.
James Wolfe
A term for the large earthen structures built by some Southeastern tribes.
Mound
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
Jamestown
The event when colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxes.
Boston Tea Party
A crop used to produce a rich blue dye, important in the southern colonies.
Indigo
The French commander defending Quebec City against the British.
Marquis de Montcalm
The Olmec and Maya used astronomy to create this length of calendar (number of days).
365
The Indian girl who married John Rolfe and later met King James I.
Pocahontas
The British law that allowed officials to search for smuggled goods in colonists’ homes and businesses.
Writs of Assistance
The system of trade connecting Africa, Europe, and the Americas (three‑part route).
Triangular Trade
The British politician who changed war tactics and provided strong support to the colonies during the French & Indian War.
William Pitt
The animal/environment or major factor that greatly reduced the Indian population of New England alongside warfare and migration.
disease
The main city of the Aztec civilization.
Tenochtitlan
The diplomatic agreement that officially ended the War for Independence.
Treaty of Paris
The colonial practice by which young people learned trades by working under a skilled worker.
Apprenticeships
The French volunteer who helped trap Cornwallis at Yorktown.
Marquis de Lafayette
The Native American leader also known as King Philip who resisted British expansion.
King Philip (Metacomet)