1. In what year was North America discovered?
2. Who is credited with discovering North America?
1. 1492
2. Columbus
100
Roger William was expelled from the New England Colony for what major reason?
What colony did he start after being expelled?
He believed in the seperation of church and state.
Providence
100
The French and Indian War was fought between what two major countries?
What was an effect of the French and Indian War?
France and England
King George III issued the proclamation of 1763
100
The sons of liberty were what?
Those who supported independance were called _______ Those who supported the king were _________.
Political activists who supported independance.
Rebels
Loyalists
200
Name the mountain range that is the oldest in the U.S.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
200
Whose voyage was the first to sail around the world?
Who is Magellan?
200
The "Great Awakening" referred to what?
Who was the leader of the "Great Awakening"?
A religious movement.
George Whitefield
200
The Proclamation of 1763 stated what?
Western lands belonged to the Indians/Native Americans.
200
Where were the first shots of the Revolution fired?
Lexington (and Concord)
300
When features are similar in an area, we call this area what?
What is a region?
300
1. What document governed the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock?
2. What was the first permanent English settlement in the "New World"?
The Mayflower Compact.
Jamestown
300
What was an effect of King Phillip's War?
Most Indians/Native Americans were wiped out and lost much of their land.
300
Who is honored with being the first dead at the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks
300
What date was the Declaration of Independance signed?
Who is credited with being the author of the Declaration of Independance?
July 4, 1776
Thomas Jefferson
400
Why are the peaks of the Appalachian Mountains rounded?
The peaks are rounded because of erosion.
400
Who had realized that Columbus had discovered a "New World"?
Who is Vespucci?
400
New England's economy was the beginning of what type of economic system in the colonies?
What is a Free-Market System?
400
What was the effect of The Tea Act passed by the English Parliament in 1773?
How did the British Government respond? (three answers)
The Boston Tea Party.
*the coercive acts
*forcing colonists to quarter troops
*Applying a blockade around Boston
400
What was the first document that governed the colonies?
The Articles of Confederation
500
What does the Continental Divide do?
Rivers east of the divide flow east to the Atlantic, rivers west flow west to the Pacific.
500
Why did Europeans risk everything they had to come to the New World? (three possible answers)
a. Religious Freedom
b. Economic Opportunity
c. Desire for land
500
1. The Middle colonies consisted of how many colonies?
2. What was the nickname of the middle colonies?
3. What type of population did the middle colonies have compared to other colonies?
1. Four
2. Breadbasket Colonies
3. A diverse population
500
The First Continental Congress met and sent a petition to King George III informing him of what?
Where was the first and second continental congress held?
To remind him that colonists were British citizens with basic human rights.
Philadelphia
500
What was the last major battle of the Revolution?
Where was the treaty signed that ended the revolution and secured independance for the colonists and forming our country, the United States of America signed?