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100

These are two cash crops important to the Carolina colonies.

two of these:
tobacco, rice, indigo

100

This word best describes the traveling lifestyles of Indian tribes in the Americas.

nomadic

100

This pamphlet written by Thomas Paine helped to convince colonists that America should separate from Britain.

Common Sense

100

This term describes the undeveloped area at the edge of the colonial settlements.

frontier

100

This was the name given to energetic militiamen to be ready to fight the British at short notice.

Minutemen

200

This was the major business activity of the Frenchman who came to North America.

Fur trading

200

It was in these places that Christian Indians lived in order to learn about European laws, manners, and town life.

Praying towns

200

This university was the first institution of higher learning in the colonies.

Harvard

200

This is another, more common name for Norsemen.

Vikings

200

This was the name for the Virginians' first representative assembly.

House of Burgesses

300

These were known as large farms mainly existing in the southern colonies.

Plantations

300

This is another name for the non-confrontational "Society of Friends".

Quakers

300

The Jamestown Colony was founded in this year.

1607

300

Along with Britain, early American colonies had to contend with this country for land claims in the Ohio Valley and along the St. Lawrence River.

France

300
He was the king of Britain while colonial discontent grew to a climax.

King George III

400

This system allowed young men to learn a trade while living in the colonies.

Apprenticeship

400

This "fire-breathing" paster from Northampton, Massachusetts helped revive American faith during the Great Awakening with messages like "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

Jonathan Edwards
400

This British officer surrended to George Washington at Yorktown to officially end the American Revolution.

Charles Cornwallis

400

It was in these colonies that availed themselves to ample timer for a thriving shipbuilding industry.

New England colonies
400

This is the term for an assigned charge on imported goods.

Tariff

500

These armed merchant ships played a large role in the Revolutionary War.

Privateers

500

This portion of the Constitution contains amendments such as Freedom of Religion, Bearing Arms, Assembly, and more.

Bill of Rights

500

It was in this incident that the French tried to bribe the American envoys during the war between France and Britain.

The XYZ Affair

500

He's the Italian explorer who proved that Columbus had discovered a "new world"; he's also the namesake for the USA.

Amerigo Vespucci

500

This is the name of the system devised by the Constitution to elect the president.

Electoral college

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