European Exploration
This was the first permanent English colony in America.
What is Jamestown?
The moving of people into one country from other countries.
What is immigration?
An act that lowered the tax on sugar and molasses, but allowed officers to take goods from smuggles without first going to court.
What was the Sugar Act?
Who were the Minutemen?
Another word for a surprise attack.
What is an ambush?
Europe, Asia, and Africa trading goods, ideas and even diseases with the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The war fought between Britain and France (with the help of Native Americans) over the Ohio River Valley.
What was the French and Indian War?
An act that taxed almost all printed materials.
What was the Stamp Act?
Known as the first battles of the Revolutionary War, Thomas Gage ordered British soldiers to take Patriot weapons and ammunition.
What were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This military strategy is where you stop food and supplies from entering or leaving a town.
What is a siege?
This man tried to sail to Asia, but instead began European contact with the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This rule said that colonists were not allowed to live west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This event, carried out by the Sons of Liberty in response to the Tea Act, ended in the destruction of British tea in the Boston Harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This battle, known as the turning point of the war, ended in the surrender of General Burgoyne and led to France agreeing to help the Patriots.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
This battle ended with the surrender of General Cornwallis, and in turn, the final major battle of the American Revolution.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
The set of rules made by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower before settling their colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
These documents allowed British officers to search almost anywhere for smuggled goods.
Known as the Coercive Acts by the British, these acts included the closing of the Boston Harbor, and the right for British soldiers to stay in colonist's homes.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
What is Valley Forge?
The first constitution of the United States, known for its' weak central government and inability to levy taxes.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This religious group settled Pennsylvania and did not believe in fighting.
Meeting in Philadelphia that said 13 acts of Parliament were illegal, and that colonists should arm themselves against the British.
What was the First Continental Congress?
These acts were a tax on imported goods, such as glass, tea, and paper.
What were the Townshend Acts?
Who was Marquis de Lafayette?
This type of government is one ruled by citizens through elected representatives.
What is a republic?