Colonial America
Where the Pilgrims landed.
What is Plymouth?
The colony founded as a haven for Quakers and religious freedom.
What is Pennsylvania?
The name of the war that left the British in debt, leading to them passing taxes to generate revenue.
What is the French & Indian War?
The name for colonists who stayed aligned with the King.
What are Loyalists?
The combination of the Virginia and New Jersey Plans?
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
The last of the 13 colonies.
What is Georgia?
The region of colonies referred to as the "bread colonies"
What are the Middle Colonies?
George Washington was commander in chief of the _____________.
What is the Continental Army?
The battle that ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The ordinance that created a 3-stage path toward statehood for the Northwest Territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
The colonial region whose economy was reliant on small farms, timber, fishing, and shops.
What is New England?
The first college founded in America.
What is Harvard?
The name of the book published in 1776 by Thomas Paine that influenced many colonists to support independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
The first official fight that saw the Patriots lose their fortifications around Boston.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
What the Anti-Federalists believed was missing from the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The colony that sought to be a "city on a hill"
What is Massachusetts Bay?
The colony the British took over from the Dutch.
What is New York?
The battle that was meant to be a three-sided attack by the British but ended up a decisive victory and turning point in the war for the Patriots.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The document that ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The three branches of government created under the Constitution.
What is legislative, executive, and judicial?
The first written constitution in America.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
The frontier trail used by settlers to move and settle southward.
What is the Great Wagon Road?
What is the South?
The battle in which Washington led the Patriots across the Delaware River on Christmas night.
What is the Battle of Trenton?