Jamestown, Virginia - the 1st permanent English colony in America
What is the significance of the date 1607?
100
barter
What is an exchange of goods or services?
100
Middle Colonies
What is the area called where these colonies are located (New England, Middle or Southern colonies):
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
100
Boston Massacre
What is when five Americans were killed while protesting the Quartering Act outside the Boston customs house on March 5, 1770.
100
Suffrage
Definition: the right to vote was extended to most white males 21+. What is the vocabulary word?
200
1803
What is the date of the Louisiana Purchase?
200
budget
What is a plan for spending or saving?
200
Maryland
What is the colony established to allow Catholics to worship freely?
200
Boston Tea Party
What is the protest of the Tea Act when citizens of Boston dumped 342 chests of British East India tea into Boston Harbor.
200
Manifest Destiny
What is the belief that all Americans should own land from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
300
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence
What is the significance of the date 1776?
300
labor
What is people who work to produce a product?
300
House of Burgesses
What is the first example of representative government in America?
300
Lexington & Concord
What is where the first shots of the Revolution were fired?
300
The Gold Rush
What was in 1849 when 80,000 people rushed to Sutters Mill, California?
400
1620
What is the date that the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact?
400
scarcity
What is the amount of a product is less than the demand?
400
Mayflower Compact
What is the document that states that the colonists will "combine ourselves into a civil body politic...and promise all do submission and obedience...for the general good of the colony?"
400
Saratoga
What is the battle that was the turning point of the American Revolution?
400
Trail of Tears
What was the journey called when thousands of Cherokee Indians died when moving from the southeast to the Indian Territory?
500
The United States expanded to the Mississippi River.
What is the significance of the date 1783?
500
profit
What is the amount of money made above the cost of doing business?
500
tobacco
What is the cash crop for Virginia?
500
Patrick Henry
Who said “Give me liberty or give me death”?
500
A nominating convention
What is a large meeting of a political party in which delegates from all states nominate a candidate?