European Explorers
Year Jamestown was founded.
What is 1607?
Where Pilgrims landed in 1620.
What is Plymouth?
What is the Quartering Act?
Where the shot heard around the world took place.
What is Lexington and Concord?
Amendment that gives you the right to speak freely.
What is the First Amendment?
French didn't find a shortcut but they did find this.
What is the Mississippi River?
Our first representative government founded in 1619 in Jamestown.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Person who etched the picture of the Boston Massacre and used it as propaganda.
Who is Paul Revere?
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
Branch of government containing the President of the United States.
What is the Executive Branch?
What is Spain?
Our first example of self-government taking place in New England in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Act that prohibited colonists from going west of the Appalachian mountains.
What is the Proclamation Act?
Turning point battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Amendment that allows citizens to refuse National Guard soldiers from staying in their homes.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
Country that established itself on the eastern side of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is England?
Section of the colonies that had slaves and fertile land.
What are the southern colonies?
Organization led by Sam Adams that terrorized British businesses and individuals in the colonies.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
Final battle of the American Revolution where the British surrendered.
What is the battle of Yorktown?
Amendment that keeps police officers from entering your home without a warrant.
What is the 4th Amendment?
When countries compete for raw materials.
What is Mercantilism?
System by which we got slaves from Africa even when we had nothing Africa wanted.
What is Triangular Trade?
Final Act that closed the ports and caused colonists to write the Declaration of Independence.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Agreement that recognized the United States as a independent country and gave the USA all the land to the Mississippi River.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Amendment that protects the rights not mentioned in the Constitution.
What is the 9th Amendment?