People
This young British officer disintegrated the "Long Peace" between France and Britain after attacking Fort Duquesne in 1754. He was later appointed commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
This group settled in Massachusetts Bay and lived by a strict code of discipline. They believed there was a need for moral reform in English society.
Who are the Puritans?
Surrounded by their American and French adversaries, the British finally surrendered their remaining forces in 1781 at this Virginia town.
What is Yorktown?
This body sent petitions to King George III and raised the Continental Army, printed money, and oversaw foreign relations between the colonies and other nations.
What is the Continental Congress?
This battle proved to be a disaster for Burgoyne and the British, who quickly realized that the popularity of the Patriot cause would make re-conquering America very difficult. As a result, the British altered their military strategy.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This person was an indentured servant on Martin’s Hundred tobacco plantation in colonial Virginia. He wrote a letter to his parents describing the difficult living and working conditions of servitude.
Who is Richard Frethorne?
This Indigenous group encountered the Spanish in the southwest and were faced with aggressive attempts by missionaries to convert them to catholicism, occasionally leading to bloody conflict and rebellion.
Who are the Pueblo people?
The British found this port city to be the center of the patriot's cause and their military strategy was to cut it off from the rest of the colonies.
What is Boston?
This agreement was signed by Britain and France following the Seven Years War, and it granted Britain claim to the land between the Mississippi River and the eastern seaboard.
What is the 1763 Treaty of Paris?
This global conflict involved fighting on the North American continent between Britain, France, and various Native communities.
What is the Seven Years War? (or the French and Indian War)
This person declared upon arrival in colonial New England that “we shall be a city upon a hill; all eyes shall be upon us...”
Who is John Winthrop?
This vigilante group used intimidation and violence, such as tar-and-feathering, to deter British customs officials from collecting duties.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This colony's need for dependable labor motivated its great planters to create slave codes, which historian Anthony S. Parent, Jr. argued created race-based slavery.
What is Virginia?
This system of government, used by Great Britain, divided authority between the crown and parliament.
What is a Limited Monarchy?
This event unified religion in the colonies, creating a new generation of charismatic leaders who were more inclined to break with British rule. It also lent widespread credibility to the ideology of liberty.
What is the Great Awakening?
This person was a ruthless Spanish explorer who landed on the coast of Florida in 1539 with 600 Spanish men. He spent the next three years raiding Native communities throughout the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
This group, which often had French ties, traveled between Native communities and assisted with diplomacy by speaking Native languages, marrying Native women and having Native children, and living with Native communities.
Who are fur traders?
This large capital city of Mississippian Chiefdoms had a hierarchical tributary system and functioned as the center of trade in Native North America long before European contact.
What is Cahokia?
This series of laws transformed Virginia from a society of social mobility in the 1620s to one of division along lines of race by 1700.
What are Slave Codes?
Between 711 and 1492, monarchs from different Iberian kingdoms waged war to dislodge Muslims from the region and reclaim Christendom.
What is the Spanish Reconquista?
This evangelical leader is credited with popularizing the camp meeting, a prominent style of worship during the Great Awakening.
Who is George Whitefield?
This group emerged on large plantations in South Carolina that had a black majority and resulted from the combination of a variety of West African cultures, even forming their own linguistic dialect in an example of creolization.
Who are the Gullah people?
17th century English immigrants arrived to this colony in family units.
What is Massachusetts?
These acts closed the Port of Boston, appointed General Thomas Gage as Royal Governor, and mandated the quartering of troops in private buildings to punish the Colony of Massachusetts following the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive Acts of 1774? (Intolerable Acts)
This late seventeenth century legal persecution by Puritans mostly targeted women, especially those that were childless, unmarried, propertied, or non-compliant.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?