Colonial Chaos
Which English colony's economy was transformed by John Rolfe's successful cultivation of tobacco?
What is Jamestown VA
This 1763 British policy attempted to reduce conflict with Native Americans by restricting colonial settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This 1776 publication rejected reconciliation with Britain and attacked the very concept of hereditary monarchy, arguing that an island should not rule a continent.
What is "Common Sense"?
Despite being located entirely within South Africa, this independent kingdom has one of the highest average elevations of any country in the world.
What is Lesotho?
This Puritan minister helped establish Connecticut after disagreeing with the leadership of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who is Thomas Hooker
This 1765 law provoked widespread colonial resistance because it imposed a direct tax on printed materials rather than duties on imported goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
This December 1776 victory followed a dangerous river crossing and resulted in the capture of a Hessian garrison, reviving Patriot morale after months of defeats.
This egg-laying mammal native to Australia possesses electroreceptors in its bill that allow it to detect prey underwater.
What is a platypus?
This 1619 institution in Virginia allowed colonists to elect representatives to participate in lawmaking, establishing an early precedent for representative government in English America.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses
This 1774 British legislation closed Boston Harbor until the destroyed tea was paid for, becoming one of the measures colonists collectively labeled the Intolerable Acts.
What are the Coercive Acts?
This 1777 victory forced British General John Burgoyne to surrender and helped convince France that American independence was achievable.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This element, named after the Greek word for green, has the atomic number 17 and was used as a chemical weapon during World War I.
What is Chlorine?
This group sought religious freedom in the new world and inadvertently landed in the Cape Cod Bay in 1621.
Who are the Separatists?
This colonial organization, formed in Massachusetts in 1772 and later adopted elsewhere, helped coordinate resistance by circulating information about British actions between towns and colonies.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This Prussian officer helped transform the Continental Army into a more disciplined fighting force during the winter encampment at Valley Forge.
Who is Baron von Steuben?
This nation won the first FIFA World Cup in 1930, defeating Argentina 4–2 in the final.
What is Uruguay?
This English system treated colonies as suppliers of raw materials and markets for manufactured goods, while policies such as the Navigation Acts restricted colonial commerce.
What is Mercantilism?
These acts taxed items like lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea and were mostly repealed following widespread boycotts in the English North American colonies.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This British general surrendered his army at Yorktown in 1781 after French naval forces prevented evacuation by sea and combined American-French forces surrounded his position.
Who is Lord Charles Cornwallis?
This country is the only nation in the world whose national flag is not rectangular or square.
What is Nepal?