Native America
Colonial America
Revolutionary America
John Adams
Tonight's Quiz!
100
Corns, Beans, and Squash made up this
What is the 3 Sisters?
100
System to encourage labor into the Colonies by offering 50 acres
What is the Headright System?
100
Author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
Sam Adams fiery and secret rebel organization.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
100
The idea that farming and the farming lifestyle creates a healthier society and political culture.
What is Agrarianism?
200
Corn, Tobacco, or Beans was the most important to the Northern Plains Indians
What is Corn?
200
The first successful British Colony in North America
What is Virginia?
200
The pamphlet which fanned the flames of Rebellion in the 1770's
What is Common Sense?
200
What bloody event begins the movie John Adams?
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
Jefferson believed this was superior to Monoculture
What is subsistence or diversified farming?
300
The Hohokam Indians were the first to spread this crop which would later come to dominate the Southern economy
What is Cotton?
300
The least limited way of owning land for the Colonial Farmer
What is Fee Simple?
300
1676 Rebellion that showed the grit and fire of early Americans, also created a bad feeling towards Native Americans.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
300
John Adams famous wife?
Who is Abigail Adams?
300
This invention revolutionized the Southern economy and extended slavery for decades more.
What is the Cotton Gin?
400
The Shasta tribe were the first to experiment with this crop, one that would be the first single crop farming to dominate the colonies
What is Tobacco?
400
They were considered the best farmers of all early European immigrants to the Colonies
Who are Germans?
400
This "World War" of the 1750's laid the ground work for the bad attitude the Colonists would have towards the British and lead to the Revolution.
What is the French and Indian War?
400
Adams will travel to Philadelphia and attend this to create the Declaration and plan for War.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
400
This was offered to the Colonists to get them to enlist and fight in the Revolutionary War.
What is land?
500
How you proved land was yours in most Native American agricultural settings.
What is by using the land?
500
Crop which began the one crop tradition that would dominate Southern Agriculture into the 20th Century
What is Tobacco?
500
The first organized protest movement in America led by women.
What is the Edenton Tea Party?
500
The acts that had the people of Boston and all of Massachusetts all riled up.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
500
British offered them asylum and freedom if they escaped from the Colonies, trying to weaken the farm economy
Who are Slaves?
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