Colonies
The name of the colony that disappeared mysteriously.
What is Roanoke Colony?
The 3 branches of government.
What is the legislative, executive, and judicial branch?
The pamphlet written by Thomas Paine saying that the colonists owed nothing to Great Britain and would only be harmed by continued to remain loyal.
What is Common Sense?
The Native American who primarily helped the Pilgrims.
What is Squanto?
The number of chests of tea thrown into Boston Harbor
What is 342?
A group of individuals who were seeking religious freedom and established Plymouth Colony.
What is the Pilgrims?
First Secretary of State and Secretary of Treasury.
What is Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton?
The group of men who dressed as Mohawk Indians and threw chests of tea into Boston Harbor
What is the Sons of Liberty?
The way that Native Americans originally made their way to the Americas.
What is across the Bering Strait or sailing to the west coast?
Volunteers who trained regularly and were ready to fight at a moment’s notice
What is minutemen?
The group that founded Jamestown.
What is the Virginia Company?
The event in which John Adams sent delegates to meet with 3 French ambassadors to get France to stop attacking American ships; France demanded $10 million.
What is the XYZ Affair?
The fort that the Green Mountain Boys and Ethan Allen seized at the start of the Revolution.
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
The southwestern tribe that built their settlements in steep cliffs.
What is the Anasazi?
The event where colonists threw chunks of ice and oyster shells at British officers, resulting in someone firing into the crowd and 2 deaths
What is the Boston Massacre?
The 1st permanent French settlement in North America.
What is Port Royal?
Citizens would be fined or jailed if they criticized the government or its officials
What is the Sedition Act?
The 1st major battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The first North American city built by the Mississippians.
What is Cahokia?
The 4 conditions of the Intolerable Acts.
What is Boston’s port was shut down until the destroyed tea was paid off; MA colonists could not hold town meetings more than once a year without the governor’s permission; if MA officials were accused of a crime, their trials would be held in Canada or Britain; colonists had to house British soldiers in their homes if no other housing was available?
Purchased Manhattan Island and built a settlement named New Amsterdam.
What is Peter Minuit?
The 5 freedoms listed in the 1st Amendment.
The young man sent by George Washington to spy on the British who was caught, had evidence in his shoe, and was hanged by the British.
What is Nathan Hale?
The name of the 5 Iroquois tribes.
What is the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Cayuga?
The arrogant general that was killed on the way to Fort Duquesne in an ambush during the French and Indian War
What is General Edward Braddock?