Cash crop of Jamestown that allowed the colony to succeed.
What is tobacco?
100
This was a tax on paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
The Declaration of Independence was written mostly by this man.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Completed the voyage to India, south of Africa
Who is Vasco da Gama
200
Peter Minuit bought the Manhattan island from the Native Americans for this amount.
What is $24?
200
The separatists who left Europe to settle in North America called themselves this.
What are Pilgrims?
200
Gave British customs officials the right to search for smuggled goods.
What is a Writ of Assistance?
200
African Americans served as soldiers in all the states except this one.
What is South Carolina?
300
Exchange of plants, animals, ideas, and diseases between the Old World and New World
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
Were more interested in trade rather than settling.
Who are the French?
300
This is the mass movement of Puritans from England to Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s.
What is the Great Migration?
300
This war cost the British a lot and they expected the colonies to start paying more in taxes as a result.
What is the French and Indian War (or Seven Years' War)?
300
This was the turning point of the war, as the French agreed to help after the US won the battle.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
400
Many explorers searched for this water route to Asia north of America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
400
Colony was attacked and taken over by an English fleet of ships in 1664.
What is New Netherland?
400
Created as a debtor's colony by James Oglethorpe.
What is Georgia?
400
Said that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
French nobleman who fought alongside the Americans in the war.
What is Marquis de Lafayette?
500
This country had a good relationship with the Native Americans as they didn't take their land and traded with them for furs.
Who are the French?
500
Led a group of men to attack Native American settlements in the western part of Virginia. Resulted in more land being opened up for settlement by whites.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
500
This region in the 13 colonies mostly practiced subsistence farming.
What is New England?
500
Says that Parliament has the power to make laws for the colonies in "all cases whatsoever"
What is the Declaratory Act?
500
The Treaty of Paris said that these people could collect their debts from Americans.