People
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere.
The Columbian Exchange
22,000 years ago, what event happened that allowed people to enter into America?
Ice Age
What were three difficulties the men at Jamestown faced?
starvation
trouble with local Native Americans
landed in a swamp
"gentlemen" refused to work and only wanted to search for gold
diseases
cold
What was the "brown gold" of Jamestown?
This person was kicked out of Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island for religious freedom.
Roger Williams
The first representative government in colonial America.
The House of Burgesses
This battle had the "shot heard round the world," and was the stat of the American Revolution.
The Battle of Lexington
What were three conditions of the middle passage?
small cramped space
little food or clean water
little sunlight
terrible stench
diseases
high mortality rate
The passage of these laws resulted in colonists smuggling goods in and out of the colonies.
This Indian princess would become an ambassador for the Powhatan before her premature death.
The assemblies of Massachusetts and Virginia set this up to communicate with other colonies about threats to American liberties. It helped link colonial leaders.
The Committee of Correspondence
During this event, British soldiers shot into a crowd killing five people.
Boston Massacre
What were two differences between indentured servants and African slaves?
4-7 years of work vs. life
some servants had a choice vs. slaves having no choice
children of servants wouldn't automatically be servants vs. children of slaves born into slavery
white vs. black
Europeans vs. Africans
This was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
The Battle of Yorktown
This person led the lost colony of Roanoke, where his wife, daughter, and newborn granddaughter were never seen again.
John White
A system where anyone who paid for their own or another’s passage to Virginia received 50 acres of land
headright system
What officially ended the French and Indian War?
The Treaty of Paris, 1763
What were two military strengths of the Patriots? What were two weaknesses?
Strengths: fought for causes they believed in; powerful military leader in George Washington; new the terrain better
Weaknesses: untrained, poorly equipped soldiers; small navy; lack of funds; colonies struggled to unify and organize
What were three things that helped lead to the Age of Exploration?
Missionary Call
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
The Crusades
The Reformation
The Rise of Nations
New Technology
1. God 2. Gold 3. Glory
Who famously yelled, "the British are coming!" to alert the people of Massachusetts that the British were headed to Concord?
Paul Revere
A system in which Spanish authorities granted colonial landlords the service of Native Americans as forced laborers.
encomienda
This event opened the way for the rest of Europe to venture into the Americas.
defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English
What were five specific causes of the Revolutionary War?
-Proclamation of 1763
-writs of assistance
-Sugar Act
-Stamp Act
-Declaratory Act
-Townshend Acts
-Boston Massacre
-Intolerable Acts
What...
Shut down Boston Harbor until colonists paid for the ruined tea.
Put in place the Quartering Act authorizing British commanders to house soldiers in private homes.
General Thomas Gage, Commander in Chief of British forces in America, was appointed the new governor of Massachusetts.
Put Boston under martial law
The Intolerable Acts