Explorers and Expeditions
This Italian explorer sailed for Spain and is credited with "discovering" the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This religious revival swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the Great Awakening?
This 1765 act required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
This battle marked the start of the Revolutionary War.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This explorer claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France.
Who is Robert de La Salle?
This agreement was signed by the Pilgrims and established self-government in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Colonial children often learned to read using this small textbook.
What is a hornbook?
This event in Boston was used as propaganda by the colonists to fuel anti-British sentiment.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This document officially declared the colonies independent from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Spanish explorers who sought wealth and spread Christianity were called this.
What are conquistadors?
This group of colonies included New York and Pennsylvania.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This was the primary labor system used on Southern plantations before the widespread use of enslaved labor.
What is indentured servitude?
This slogan expressed colonial frustration with taxation.
What is "No taxation without representation?"
The turning point of the Revolutionary War occurred at this battle.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This exchange of goods, people, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds began after Columbus’s voyages.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Colonists in this region often depended on cash crops like tobacco.
What are the Southern Colonies?
These laws restricted trade between the colonies and other nations.
What are the Navigation Acts?
These acts were passed to punish Boston after the Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This country provided crucial military support to the American colonies.
What is France?
This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe, though he died before completing the journey.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This conflict arose between settlers and Native Americans over land in Virginia in 1676.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
Colonial assemblies were modeled after this English governing body.
What is Parliament?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued for independence.
What is Common Sense?
This treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War. (include the year)
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?