Early Colonies
Colonial Regions
Causes of the American Revolution
Events of the Revolutionary War
Election of 1860
100
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America
Jamestown
100
This European country colonized most of the East coast of North America.
England (Great Britain)
100
This war pitted the French and Native Americans against the British for control over the Ohio River Valley
The French and Indian War
100
This man wrote "Common Sense" to bring more people over to the side of the Patriots
Thomas Paine
100
This man won the Election of 1860, becoming the 16th President of the U.S. and causing the Southern states to begin seceding.
Abraham Lincoln
200
This period of hysteria in the Massachusetts Bay Colony resulted in 14 women being killed for being "witches."
The Salem Witch Trials
200
This European country held colonies throughout central and South America, as well as Florida.
Spain
200
Left with massive amounts of debt from the French and Indian War, the British decided to do this to pay for it.
Tax the colonies
200
This was the name for a colonist who still support the King of England during the Revolution
Loyalist
200
John Breckinridge, was supported by Southerners because of his support for strong protections for this arrangement of labor.
Slavery
300
This is the name for the route that took enslaved people from the Coast of Africa to the Carribean.
The Middle Passage
300
This region of the English colonies were characterized almost entirely by farming and plantations
Southern Colonies
300
This was an act that placed a tax on many consumer goods in the colonies, such as glass, paper, tea, and metal.
The Townshend Acts
300
This final victory for the Continental Army forced the British to surrender, ending the war.
The Battle of Yorktown
300
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY*
This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Lincoln delivered his most famous speech on the gravesite of this battle a few months after the battle.
The Battle of Gettysburg
400
This Dutch colony eventually was taken over by the British, becoming New York.
New Netherlands
400
One role of this colony was to serve as a "buffer" between the English colonies and Spanish Florida to the South
Georgia
400
This act was simply a decree issued by the British that they had total control over the government and economy of the colonies
The Declaratory Act
400
This victory for the Continental Army convinced the French to publicly ally with the colonists
The Battle of Saratoga
400
Stephen Douglas, the candidate of the Northern Democrats, supported this idea that would allow states to choose for themselves whether or not they wanted to allow slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
500
This is an economic policy regarding trade balance: generally, wanting to be selling more than you're buying to a given country
Mercantilism
500
This cash crop was the main export of the Southern colonies, before cotton took over
Tobacco
500
This act closed down Boston harbor and took over the Massachusetts government, and was the final straw for the Colonists.
The Coercive/Intolerable Acts
500
What is significant about the Battle of Lexington and Concord in the timeline of the American Revolution?
First battle of the war
500
This candidate of the Constitutional Union Party from Tennessee ran on a platform of keeping the Union together no matter what
John Bell