Establishing Colonies
Two Parts! This joint-stock company established this town England's first permanent settlement in the America's in 1607
What is the Virginia Company?
What is Jamestown?
This large war was fought between the French and British Empires in the 1750's and 1760's, encompassing several smaller conflicts, including the French and Indian War.
What is the Seven Years' War?
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This 1765 British tax passed by Prime Minister Grenville on all paper products in the American colonies causing some to take up the call of "No taxation without representation!"
What is the Stamp Act?
This Constitutional amendment guarantees the rights of free speech, freedom of worship, and freedom of the press.
What is the First Amendment?
During this year Christopher Columbus left Spain on his quest to find Asia.
What is 1492?
In 1620, Protestant religious refugees from England established this colony along America's eastern shores.
What is the Plymouth colony?
This Lt. Colonel from Virginia led a militia into Ohio to contest the French at Fort Duquesne, an action which brought about the French and Indian War in America.
Who is George Washington?
In March of 1770, this violent outburst in the streets of an American city was used by Paul Revere and others to push colonists towards independence.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The Articles of Confederation were considered too weak and ineffectual because under the Articles, the federal government lacked the ability to do this essential function?
What is tax?
This Meso-American society which built large cities, practiced ritualized human sacrifice and constructed large pyramids were overthrown by Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors.
Who are the Aztecs?
This policy first proposed and enacted by Sir Edwin Sandys in British Parliament provided land to those who could purchase a share in the Virginia Joint-stock Company and their boat ride to America, as well as additional lands for every servant brought along.
What is the Headright System
The French and Native Americans fighting against the British in the Ohio Valley used these military tactics often used by smaller groups fighting professional armies throughout history.
What is Guerrilla Warfare?
In reaction to Prime Minister Lord North's tax act, a group of American patriots disguised as Native Americans committed an act of vandalism during this famous 1773 event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This Constitutional Amendment guarantees that the government can not quarter soldiers in the homes of its citizens.
What is the Third amendment?
This Meso-American society, well-known for its terrace farming, road building, and impressive mountain-top architecture, was toppled by Pizarro and his men on their quest for gold.
Who are the Inca?
This American colony was founded by Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams, both of whom were religious refugees from the Pilgrims.
What is Rhode Island?
It was against this city that British General James Wolfe successfully launched a night attack causing the British to take the upper hand and eventually ended the French and Indian War.
What is Quebec?
On the outskirts of Boston, these two battles of 1775 began the Revolutionary War and encouraged the Continental Congress to support the war effort and to declare independence from Britain.
What are the battles of Bunker Hill and Lexington & Concord?
During the Constitutional Congress this compromise was reached to end the debates between large and small states over the issue of representation in the new federal government.
What is the Great Compromise?
The capital city of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan has grown over the centuries into this modern day super-city.
What is Mexico City?
In 1664 this future English King conquered the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, which had become a bustling cosmopolitan and religiously tolerant settlement at the mouth of the Hudson River.
Who is King James II, formerly Duke of York?
This new British policy issued at the end of the French and Indian War enraged many American colonists in hopes of avoid future conflicts with Native Americans.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
After losing at the battle of Brandywine Creek, allowing the British to seize Philadelphia, Washington and his continental army survived the winter and enduring the war's low point at this nearby site.
What is Valley Forge?
During the Constitutional Congress this compromise was reached to end the debates between southern and northern states over the issues of counting slaves in matters of representation in congress and federal taxation.
What is the Three-fifths Compromise?
This Greek philosopher and mathematician had successfully calculated the circumference of Earth, proving that it was round and not flat.
Who is Eratosthenes?