Mayflower/Pilgrims
Important Dates
The Colonies
Acts
Revolutionary War
100
Henry Hudson
Who was the explorer sent from England in search of a Northwest passage, and in this endeavor discovered the river that bears his name?
100
1756-1763
What were the dates of the Seven Years' War?
100
Tobacco.
What was the main crop harvested in Virginia?
100
1766.
What year did the Townshend Act get put into effect?
100
Lexington and Concord
What was the first battle of the Revolutionary War?
200
King James I.
Who was the British king serving during the colonization of America?
200
1620
What year did the pilgrims arrive at Plymouth?
200
Proprietary colony
What was the status of Pennsylvania in 1775?
200
Because the colonists were buying smuggled Dutch tea rather than taxed British products.
Why did the British pass the Tea Act?
200
Minute Men
What was the term used for the militia trained to respond at a moment's notice?
300
Mayflower Compact.
What was the first government document that the pilgrims established?
300
1607
What year was Jamestown founded?
300
Lord Baltimore, 1634.
Who founded Maryland, and when?
300
Four
How many acts were in the Intolerable Acts?
300
Who was George Washington
Who was the general of the Continental Army?
400
The Fundamental Orders of Conneticut.
What was the first Constitution established in America?
400
1763
What year did the Revolutionary War start?
400
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What colony was Anne Hutchinson expelled from in 1660?
400
Where was Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Where was the Suffolk Resolves first passed?
400
The Declaration of Independence
What was the "break up" letter from the colonists to the British?
500
The Separatists.
Which religious group left England to separate from the church?
500
1676, Virginia
When and where did Bacon's Rebellion take place?
500
1624
When was Virginia made a royal colony?
500
Claimed the power to tax or make laws for the Americans ''in all cases whatsoever''.
What did the Declaratory Act claim?
500
1783
When was the Treaty of Paris signed?
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