The discovery of new resources in Asia led Europeans to do this.
What is exploration?
100
After the death of Native American slaves, Europeans kidnapped slaves from this continent.
What is Africa?
100
Tobacco helped this settlement prosper.
What is Jamestown?
100
This war directly led to taxation for the colonists.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
This singer wrote the hit song "Shake It Off"
Who is Taylor Swift?
200
These inventions allowed Europeans to explore easier.
What are the compass, astrolabe, and caravel?
200
Most slaves worked on these.
What are farms and plantations?
200
The Quakers believed in this, which meant that allowed others to practice their own beliefs.
What is religious toleration?
200
During this type of protest, the colonists refused to buy British goods, hurting merchants who complained to the British.
What is a boycott?
200
This team won the 2014 World Series.
What are the Kansas City Royals?
300
The Columbian Exchange brought new food, plants, and animals to the Native Americans, but also brought this unwelcome disease.
What is smallpox?
300
This was the voyage that slaves took across the Atlantic.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
This type of worker worked 4-7 years to pay for their voyage to the colonies (unlike a slave who worked for their entire life).
What is an indentured servant?
300
This was a tax on all legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
This upcoming movie is the sequel to "Dumb and Dumber."
What is "Dumb and Dumber To?"
400
These made it possible for Spanish conquistadors to defeat Native Americans.
What are weapons and diseases?
400
This was the route the trading network in which goods and slaves were exchanged between the Americas, England, and Africa.
What is the Triangular Trade?
400
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the Mayflower Compact, and the House of Burgesses were examples of a government run by the people, also known by this word.
What is democracy?
400
This law banned the colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains in order to avoid conflict with Native Americans.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
November 22 will mark the 51st anniversary of this president's assassination.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
500
This was the water route that would have made it possible to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific (it was never found).
What is the Northwest Passage?
500
This was the system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade.
What is mercantilism?
500
Different forms of these developed in each of the colonies because of the different climates and resources each colony had.
What are economies?
500
These laws limited the colonies' ability to trade with any other country.
What are the Navigation Acts?
500
The Bellport Middle School fire took place in this year.