Map Skills
Explains the meaning of symbols and colors on a map.
What is a map key (legend)?
The first permanent English settlement in North America
What is Jamestown?
This conflict caused Britain to tax the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
America’s first national government, which was too weak.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
A colonist who supported Britain.
What is a Loyalist?
Who wrote Common Sense?
Who is Thomas Paine?
These lines run east to west and measure distance north or south of the Equator.
What are latitude lines?
The main motivation for European exploration.
What is trade and wealth?
The first battles of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This compromise created a two-house Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
An economic system where colonies exist to benefit the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
What was required to amend the Articles of Confederation?
What is approval from all thirteen states?
This tool shows directions like north, south, east, and west.
What is a compass rose?
This agreement for self-government was signed by the Pilgrims in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The pamphlet by Thomas Paine urging independence.
What is Common Sense?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A colonist who wanted independence.
What is a Patriot?
What did the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom establish?
What is freedom of religion for all citizens?
This map tool helps measure real-world distances.
What is a map scale?
The forced migration of Africans to work on plantations.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
The turning point of the American Revolution where France helped the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The system that keeps one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
A forceful overthrow of a government.
What is a revolution?
How did Shays’s Rebellion show that the Articles of Confederation were weak?
What is that the national government could not protect citizens from unrest?
The type of graph that shows trends over time.
What is a line graph?
Three countries that colonized North America.
What are England, France, and Spain?
The treaty that ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
A major weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is the inability to enforce laws?
A settlement ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
What law helped govern the Northwest Territory and admit new states?
What is the Northwest Ordinance?