CONTACT & CONQUEST
CLUE: In Eastern Woodland farming, corn and beans were grown alongside this third "sister" crop.
ANSWER: What is squash?
CLUE: Founded in 1607, this Virginia settlement was the first permanent English colony in North America.
ANSWER: What is Jamestown?
CLUE: In 1680 this Pueblo leader led a revolt that drove the Spanish out of New Mexico for over a decade.
ANSWER: Who is Popé?
CLUE: The Seven Years' War in North America is better known by this name.
ANSWER: What is the French and Indian War?
CLUE: He drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
ANSWER: Who is Thomas Jefferson?
CLUE: This conquistador toppled the Aztec capital in 1521 with the help of thousands of Native allies who opposed Aztec rule.
ANSWER: Who is Hernán Cortés?
CLUE: John Rolfe's experiments with this cash crop finally made Virginia profitable.
ANSWER: What is tobacco?
CLUE: This New England minister's sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" was a landmark of the Great Awakening.
ANSWER: Who is Jonathan Edwards?
CLUE: This 1763 royal order banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachians.
ANSWER: What is the Proclamation of 1763?
CLUE: In plain language, this pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued that monarchy was illegitimate and independence necessary.
ANSWER: What is Common Sense?
CLUE: This term describes the movement of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after 1492.
ANSWER: What is the Columbian Exchange?
CLUE: Unlike English settlers, New France built a small-population economy on this trade, based on alliances with Native peoples.
ANSWER: What is the fur trade?
CLUE: Led by Nathaniel Bacon in 1676, this uprising helped push Virginia planters toward enslaved African labor.
ANSWER: What is Bacon's Rebellion?
CLUE: This 1765 tax on newspapers and legal documents sparked the slogan "no taxation without representation."
ANSWER: What is the Stamp Act?
CLUE: This 1777 American victory in New York convinced France to ally openly with the United States.
ANSWER: What is the Battle of Saratoga?
CLUE: Under this Spanish system, colonists received Native labor and tribute in return for "protection" and religious instruction.
ANSWER: What is the encomienda system?
CLUE: Under this economic theory, colonies supply raw materials and buy manufactured goods from the mother country; the Navigation Acts enforced it.
ANSWER: What is mercantilism?
CLUE: After this 1739 uprising near Charleston, South Carolina passed harsher slave codes.
ANSWER: What is the Stono Rebellion?
CLUE: British officials claimed Parliament spoke for all subjects, even colonists who could not vote, an argument called this.
ANSWER: What is virtual representation?
CLUE: This English philosopher's ideas of natural rights and the social contract influenced the Declaration's claim that governments rule by consent.
ANSWER: Who is John Locke?
CLUE: Disease shrank the Native workforce, so colonists relied more on enslaved Africans, who ranked near the bottom of this ancestry-based hierarchy in New Spain.
ANSWER: What is the casta system?
CLUE: Home to Penn's Quaker colony, this region's diverse small farms, grain exports, and religious toleration set it apart from New England and the Chesapeake.
ANSWER: What are the Middle Colonies?
CLUE: In 1735 a New York printer was acquitted of libel because his criticisms of the royal governor were true, a victory for press freedom.
ANSWER: Who is John Peter Zenger?
CLUE: Passed in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party, these laws closed Boston Harbor and led the colonies to convene the First Continental Congress.
ANSWER: What are the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?
CLUE: This Revolutionary-era ideal encouraged educating girls so mothers could raise virtuous citizens, without granting women political rights.
ANSWER: What is republican motherhood?