By inventing practical devices such as eyeglasses, this man helped improve the world around him.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
This is what Christopher Columbus was trying to find when he landed in the Americas.
What is Asia?
100
It acquired slaves in exchange for molasses and rum.
What is the West Indies during Triangular Trade/Atlantic Slave Trade?
100
This piece of land was the main focuses during the French and Indian War.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
100
Type of fighter that uses hit and run tactics?
What is Guerrilla?
200
This person founded Georgia in the hope that debtors could make a fresh start there.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
200
This was the reason why the Spanish wanted control of Florida.
What is to protect their sea routes?
200
It caused the Pilgrims to flee England to escape persecution.
How did the concept of the "established church" affect the Pilgrims?
200
If the British gained control of Quebec, they would disrupt French supplies from reaching forts past that point.
What is the reason capturing Quebec was so important to the British during the French and Indian War?
200
The attempt by the British to seize control of colonial military stores.
What is the event that led to the battles of Lexington and Concord?
300
He was a French military officer that came to aid the colonists during the Revolutionary War.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
300
This was one reason that Spanish soldiers were able to easily defeat the Native American empires.
What is they unknowingly spread diseases to the Native Americans.
300
This colonies effort to attract people of different ethnicities is what set it apart from other colonies.
What is Pennsylvania?
300
This was a significant effect on France after signing the Treaty of Paris after the French and Indian War.
What is France lost most of its territory and power in North America?
300
This was the main reason why it was so important to take on the work of the men who were fighting in the revolution.
What is to ensure survival of their families and troops?
400
This "military" officer helped the colonists become more disciplined during their winter at Valley Forge.
Who is Fredrich von Steuben?
400
This item allowed sailors to determine their latitude while at sea.
What is an astrolabe?
400
The environment provided different resources for earning a living in the colonies.
What is the difference in economies in the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
400
This act bypassed colonial merchants and sold tea directly to the colonists.
What is the Tea Act?
400
This led many African Americans to want to fight in the Revolutionary War with the Patriots.
What is the hope that the war would also bring and end to slavery?
500
These were three of the British Generals during the American Revolution.
Who is Thomas Gage, William Howe, Henry Clinton, John Burgoyne, Charles Cornwallis?
500
This was a biological and cultural exchange of animals, plants, human populations, diseases, food, government, technology, the arts, and languages after the discovery of the Americas by the Europeans.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
500
This was the first instance of limited government in the colonies.
What is The House of Burgesses?
500
The colonists were so angered by this tax, that they took out their frustrations on British troops in the colonies which eventually led to them firing at the colonists.
What is The Stamp Act, Boston Massacre?
500
Theses events caused many undecided Southern colonists to side with the Patriots.
What is Brutal attacks carried out by the British troops and Loyalists?