Slavery
Colonial Society
Taxation and Revolution
Native American-British Relations
American Government
100
The journey from Africa to the Americas that brought over enslaved Africans
What is the Middle Passage?
100
These businesses served as a major place for socialization in colonial cities
What are taverns?
100
Parliament's law that put a tax on printed goods in the colonies
What is the Stamp Act?
100
This daughter of Chief Powhatan married an Englishmen and converted to Christianity
Who is Pocahontas?
100
This form of American government did not give the federal government a judicial branch
What are the Articles of Confederation?
200
Enslaved Africans in South Carolina made the growth of this staple crop more feasible
What is rice?
200
"City on a Hill" was a philosophy that motivated this colony
What is Massachusetts Bay?
200
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that argued for American independence
What is Common Sense?
200
This act from the British government served to pacify relations between the colonists and the Native Americans following the French and Indian War?
What is the Proclamation Act of 1763?
200
This man did the majority of the draft work on the U.S. Constitution
Who is James Madison?
300
The uprising that made elite planters nervous about the cooperation between white indentured servants and enslaved Africans
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
300
The social institution that served as a catch-all for the poor, insane, criminals, and orphans
What is the almshouse?
300
Mercenaries employed by the British to help fight during the American Revolution
Who are the Hessians?
300
The Native American response to British colonists moving west following the French and Indian War
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
300
The first meeting including representatives from several colonies
What is the Albany Congress?
400
These two states protested referencing slavery in the Declaration of Independence
What are South Carolina and Georgia?
400
The British system, brought over to the Southern colonies, of passing all a family's land to the eldest son
What is primogeniture?
400
George Washington's main military strategy at the beginning of the American Revolution?
What is evasion to outlast the British?
400
This conflict between Native Americans and New England colonists resulted in major population decrease for the colonists
What is King Philip's War?
400
The Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention resolved the North-South debate over this issue
What is representation?
500
This act prohibited slavery in the territory northwest of the Ohio River
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
500
The aspect of law which placed women's legal identity under that of their husbands
What is coverture?
500
Parliament's law that declared that their law was binding in the colonies
What is the Declaratory Act?
500
This alliance between six Native American tribes in New York which frequently traded and fought against the French
What is the Iroquois League?
500
This plan at the Constitutional Convention suggested the U.S. start over in forming a government rather than amending the Articles of Confederation
What is the Virginia Plan?
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