Early Settlements
The first successful permanent British settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
The names of the three colonial regions in British North America.
What are New England, Middle and Southern?
The act that taxed sugar and molasses in the colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
This event started with a British soldier not paying for his wig.
What is the Boston Massacre?
A person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.
What is a patriot?
The colony founded in Massachusetts by British citizens seeking religious freedom.
What is Plymouth?
This region is known for its mountains and rocky soil.
What are the New England colonies?
The act that taxed paper products.
What is the Stamp Act?
A protest where $1.7 million dollars worth of tea was dumped into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
A colonist who sided with the British crown during the American Revolutionary War.
What is a Loyalist?
The year Jamestown was founded.
What is 1607?
This region relied on plantation farming and cash crops.
What are the Southern Colonies?
The act that required privates homes to become available for British soldiers to stay in.
What is the Quartering Act?
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This group was the majority of the population of cities.
What are Loyalists?
The primary cash crop farmed by Jamestown settlers.
What is tobacco?
The nickname for the Middle Colonies, given because of the amount of food grown there.
What is the Breadbasket?
The phrase often used by Patriots when talking about the British decrees of the 1760s and 1770s.
What is "No Taxation without Representation"?
This person was the first death of the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Someone who had close relatives or family in England.
What is a Loyalist?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The names of the five religious groups of the Middle Colonies.
What are the Quakers, the Mennonites, the Dutch Calvinists, the Lutherans, and the Presbyterians.
The acts that taxed paint, glass and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The name of the Patriot that created the first image of the Boston Massacre.
Who is Paul Revere?
A person who was "enlightened" by John Locke and other philosophers.
What is a Patriot?