Constitution
Colonies
Founding Fathers
Acts and Taxes
Explorers
100
There are 7 of these that give the structure to the Constitution
What are the Articles?
100
This colony disappeared mysteriously with a single word carved in a tree- CROATOAN.
What is Roanoke Island?
100
The commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution
Who is George Washington?
100
This Act resulted in the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Tea Act?
100
The first man to circumnavigate the globe
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
200
These were the first 10 amendments to the Constitution
What are the Bill of Rights?
200
The first permanent English settlement in America
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
200
Stirred up colonists to fight by labeling the shooting in Boston, Massachusetts as the "Boston Massacre"
Who is Samuel Adams?
200
This act placed a tax on virtually every paper transaction
What is the Stamp Act?
200
America was named after this Florentine passenger on a Portuguese voyage who wrote letters to his friends describing the New World.
Who is Americo Vespucci?
300
This amendment was made in 1919 and repealed in 1933
What is prohibition?
300
Separatists from England who lived in Holland helped to form this colony for religious reasons.
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
300
This lawyer defended British soldiers who shot colonists during the Boston Massacre
Who is John Adams?
300
These acts put restrictions on trading and manufacturing, regulating goods manufactured and grown within the British empire and provided subsidies for certain agricultural items grown in approved colonies.
What are the Navigation Acts?
300
These men wreaked havoc on Spanish ships but provided great wealth for Johnny Depp
What are the Pirates of the Caribbean?
400
This Article describes the process of veto
What is the Article 1?
400
The founders of this colony acted out of concern for Spanish power in the southern area of America. It was the last colony founded of the thirteen colonies.
What is Georgia?
400
Offered five resolutions against the Stamp Act in the House of Commons, reportedly stating: "If this be treason, make the most of it."
Who is Patrick Henry?
400
The British restricted settlement and trading by the colonists west of this line drawn through the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
400
This French captain reached Montreal in an attempt to find a Northwest Passage through the Americas.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
500
This Article establishes the Supreme Court
What is Article 3?
500
This colony was originally New Amsterdam
What is New York?
500
Wrote the fifty-page politic tract, Common Sense, that stated, "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country."
Who is Thomas Paine?
500
This act was enacted by the British Parliament on the 13 colonies of America with the purpose of protecting its sugar plantations in the West Indies.
What is the Molasses Act?
500
A French cartographer that searched for a series of lakes that would link the Atlantic and Pacific and in 1608 established a fort in Quebec.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
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