Exploration/ Colonialism
Colonialism
Causes of Revolution I
Causes of Revolution II
Events
100
Leader of the revolt in Virginia between backcountry farmers and the colonial elite.

Who is Nathaniel Bacon? 

100

Another name for the Seven Years War

What is the French and Indian War?

100

Legislation that taxed all paper items; united the colonists behind "no taxation without representation!"

What is the Stamp Act? 

100
Law that allowed British troops to occupy private residences 

What is the Quartering Act? 

100

Paul Revere's midnight ride led to these first battles of the Revolution

What is Lexington and Concord?

200

Defeated in 1588 by the English; advanced their settlement of the New World

What is the Spanish Armada?
200

First representative democracy in the US 

What is the Virginia House of Burgesses? 

200

Thomas Paine's pamphlet written as propaganda for the independence movement

What is Common Sense? 
200
British order that prohibited colonists from expanding west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763? 
200

Last battle of the American Revolution

What is Yorktown? 
300

Reasons the English, Spanish, and French settled the New World

What is for wealth, religious freedom, and to strengthen their empire? 
300

Group of investors who purchased the rights to establish plantations from the King 

What is a joint stock company? 

300
17th-18th century intellectual movement that emphasized science, reason, and individualism; led by Montesquieu, Locke, Rousseau, and Hobbes

What is the Enlightenment? 

300

Allowed British officers to search American ships without a search warrant to enforce mercantilist policies.

What are Writs of Assistance? 

300

Turning point of the Revolution after the French came to the aid of the Americans

What is the Battle of Saratoga? 

400

Period between 1600-1700 when the British ignored the American colonies and self government began to develop

What is salutary neglect? 

400
Religious dissenters who left Massachusetts; helped lay foundation for separation of church and state in America
Who are Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams? 
400

Intercolonial network proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 to collect taxes and provide colonial defense.

What was the Albany Plan of the Union? 

400

Series of laws that were meant to punish Bostonians after the Boston Tea Party: closed Boston Harbor, increased power of the military governor, etc.

What are the Intolerable/ Coercive Acts? 

400
Peace agreement that ended the American Revolution

What is the Treaty of Paris, 1783? 

500

Free points!

Free points!

500
Example of conflict between natives and colonists in New England
What are King Phillips War and the Pequot War? 
500
Enlightenment thinker who most influenced the phrase "life, liberty, and property (pursuit of happiness)" in the Declaration of Independence. 

Who is John Locke? 

500
Group of people led by George Washington who met to draft the Declaration of Independence and raise the continental army 

What is the Second Continental Congress? 

500
Written by the Continental Congress in 1775 in attempt to establish peace with the British prior before declaring independence.

What is the Olive Branch Petition? 

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