Found & First Encounters
This is the year the first enslaved Africans arrived at Point Comfort in the Chesapeake Bay colony.
What is 1619?
This term refers to Protestant propaganda aimed at discrediting the Spanish colonizers.
What is the Black Legend?
This 1767 series of acts imposed duties on imported items like glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This religious movement, aimed at renewing personal faith and piet,y swept the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the First Great Awakening?
The primary resource the Spanish initially sought and aggressively exploited through the conquistador system in the Americas.
What is gold/silver?
This island, now home to Haiti and the Dominican Republic, was where Columbus created his first settlement.
What is Hispaniola?
This North American war, fought over the Ohio Valley, was known globally as the Seven Years' War.
What is the French and Indian War?
This legislation caused tensions between colonists and redcoats because it forced colonists to provide housing and supplies for British troops.
What are the Quartering Acts?
This year marks the establishment of the Mayflower Compact by the Pilgrims.
What is 1620?
The primary resource the French sought to exploit in North America, leading to deep alliances with many Native American groups.
What is the fur trade?
This Norse explorer is known to have landed in the Americas centuries before Columbus.
Who is Leif Erikson?
This Wampanoag leader led a major, devastating conflict against the New England colonists from 1675 to 1678.
Who is King Metacom (or King Philip)?
This incident in 1770 resulted in five colonists dead and was used to escalate tensions between colonists and British soldiers.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The compromise that resolved the representation dispute by creating a bicameral legislature (Senate/House).
What is the Great Compromise?
This system developed in the British colonies where the legal status of an enslaved person was inherited through the mother, making slavery permanent and race-based.
What is chattel slavery?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America, established in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This slave revolt occurred in South Carolina in 1739 and led to the passage of the restrictive Negro Act.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This group, which included Samuel Adams, was primarily responsible for organizing the protest against the British Tea Act.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
This British monarch was known for his stubbornness, and he is the subject of most of the grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence.
Who is King George III?
This Old World phenomenon was the single greatest killer of Indigenous peoples, enabling European conquest by decimating native populations.
What is disease (or smallpox)?
This is the name for the dramatic exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and cultures between the New World and the Old World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This political upheaval in England in 1688 led directly to the dissolution of the Dominion of New England.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This document, written by Thomas Paine, put forth a clear argument for immediate American independence.
What is Common Sense?
The term used to classify Indigenous peoples based on their settlement patterns, such as sedentary (like the Aztec) or semi-sedentary (like the Taíno).
What are Indigenous Classifications?
This term refers to the forced journey of millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?