Spanish & Mexican Exploration
French Exploration & Missionaries
English Colonies & Puritans
Colonial Life & Conflict
Road to Independence
100

These Spanish explorers came to conquer and claim land in the New World after Columbus’s death.

Who were the Conquistadors?

100

This French explorer discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Who was Jacques Cartier?

100

First permanent English settlement in North America.

What was Jamestown?

100

Main occupation of most English colonists.

What is farming?

100

1765 law taxing paper goods.

What was the Stamp Act?

200

This is the largest island in the Caribbean Sea.

What is Cuba?

200

Native American tribes mostly sided with this European power during the French and Indian War.

Who were the French? 

200

This Native American woman saved Captain John Smith.

Who was Pocahontas?

200

Labor system where workers exchanged years of work for passage.

What is indentured servitude?.

200

A Group that organized resistance to British rule.

Who were the Sons of Liberty?

300

This poor Aztec peasant and this holy figure are associated with a famous Marian apparition in Mexico.

Who were Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe?

300

Two French Jesuit missionaries remembered as North American martyrs.

Who were St. René Goupil and St. Isaac Jogues?

300

Man who introduced tobacco to Virginia.

Who was John Rolfe?

300

War fought between Britain and France for North America.

What was the French and Indian War?

300

1770 event where British soldiers fired on colonists.

What was the Boston Massacre?

400

This Spanish explorer led to the fall of the Aztec Empire.

Who was Hernando Cortés

400

Founder of Quebec and known as the Father of New France.

Who was Samuel de Champlain?

400

Puritans followed the teachings of this reformer.

Who was John Calvin?

400

Region both Britain and France claimed, causing conflict.

What is the Ohio River Valley?

400

Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor during this protest.

What was the Boston Tea Party?

500

This country controlled Texas before it gained independence.

What is Mexico?

500

The feast day honoring the North American Martyrs.

What is October 19?


500

Document that established self-government for the Puritans.

What was the Mayflower Compact?

500

Young Virginian surveyor who gained military experience during the war.

Who was George Washington?

500

Colonial militia ready to fight at a moment’s notice.

Who were the Minutemen?

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