Italians couldn't make pizza if Europeans hadn't brought this back from the New World.
What are tomatoes?
100
This was to be a "City on a Hill."
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
100
With the land too poor for much farming, these colonies depended on shipping and trade.
What is New England?
100
Even though it won this war, the victory came at a high cost for England, which had to do something to pay off its debts.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
The first armed conflict between British soldiers and colonists took place here.
What is Lexington?
200
Originating in the Andes, this became staple food in Ireland and Russia.
What is the potato?
200
This colony was a refuge for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
200
The knowledge of how to grow this crop gave South Carolina another valuable export.
What is rice?
200
If you wanted to play a game of poker, you first had to ante up for this on your pack of cards.
What is a stamp? (Stamp Tax)
200
His victory here made Christmas in 1776 a very merry one indeed for George Washington.
What is Trenton?
300
Originally brought by the Spanish, they changed the lives of the Plains Indians by making them more mobile.
What are horses?
300
This colony was given to its founder as payment for a gambling debt. It became a refuge for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
300
The University of North Carolina is named after this product, valued by the British Navy, which was one the colony's exports.
What is tar?
300
This act put taxes on many goods, but it also was the reason more Americans started drinking coffee.
What are the Townshend Acts?
300
This battle convinced France to aid the American colonies against its old enemy, England.
What is France?
400
Black slaves brought the knowledge of growing this to the New World.
What is rice?
400
This colony allowed the first Jews into America.
What is New Amsterdam? (New York)
400
In this economic system, a country tries to accumulate as much gold and silver as possible.
What is mercantilism?
400
This tactic was used successfully by the colonies to get England to repeal two different taxes.
What is a boycott?
400
This era influenced Jefferson's ideas about natural rights and the social contract.
What is the Enlightenment?
500
An unknown stowaway on Columbus's ships, they killed off millions of Native Americans.
What are diseases? (microbes)
500
Indigo, a plant that produces a blue dye, was the main export of this colony for a long time.
What is South Carolina?
500
This phrase is used to describe exchanges of products between the Caribbean, the English colonies, and Africa.
What is Triangular Trade?
500
These laws had been in effect since the 1600s, but Americans hadn't paid much attention to them because England was too busy fighting wars to enforce them.
What are the Navigation Acts?
500
The British had to surrender because the French bottled them up on this peninsula.