European colonization of North America
13 English/British colonies
Events leading to the American Revolution
American Revolution
Articles of Confederation and U.S. Constitution
George Washington's and John Adams' presidency
100
These three countries were the most important European countries that established colonies in North America
What are Britain/England, France, and Spain?
100
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
What are the Middle Colonies?
100
After the Americans successfully boycotted British printed goods and the British repealed the Stamp Act, this act declared to the American colonists that the British could still tax the colonies even though they were not represented in British Parliament.
What is the Declaratory Act?
100
These two battles were the first battles of the American Revolution.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
100
Government could not tax citizens; government couldn't make states obey laws; all 13 states had to agree before any laws could be passed in Congress
What are weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
100
These two acts tried to limit the influence of residents in the United States who are not citizens and made it illegal to publish opinions that criticized the government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
200
The three main motivations for European colonization.
What are God (religion), Gold (money), and Glory (political power)?
200
Early settlers traded with the Powatan Indians for goods they needed; tobacco became an important cash crop for the colony and helped it grow; the colony was the first permanent English colony in North America.
What are three statements about the foundation and development of Jamestown?
200
Boston Harbor was closed, town meetings were banned, and self-government in Massachusetts was ended.
What are the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?
(I will also accept: What were effects of the Boston Tea Party?)
200
This American victory was the turning point in the American Revolution because it convinced the French to join the war on the American side.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
200
The Constitution gives too much power to the Federal government; the Constitution needs a Bill of Rights to protect individual liberties; the President is too much like a king
What are beliefs of anti-Federalists?
200
This event began with a tax that angered farmers and led to violence in western Pennsylvania. George Washington personally led federal troops to stop the protest, showing that the federal government would use force to maintain order.
What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
300
Fill in the blanks: potatoes and corn are ________ World crops that travelled from ______________ to ____________________ as part of the __________________ _________________
What are New World crops that travelled from America to Europe as part of the Colombian Exchange?
300
These two colonies were established by Roger Williams and Thomas Hooker, both of whom were escaping John Winthrop's strict Puritan theocracy in the Massachusetts Bay colony.
What are Rhode Island and Connecticut?
300
This led to the end of French colonization in North America and put Britain in a lot of debt, which contributed to the American Revolution.
What is the significance of the French-Indian War?
300
This was the last battle of the American Revolution. This is where British General Cornwallis surrendered. The Americans won!
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
300
These two men were the leaders at the Constitutional Convention.
Who are George Washington and James Madison?
300
The President only serves a maximum of 2 terms/8 years in office; the President chooses a cabinet of advisors; neutrality in foreign affairs.
What are precedents that George Washington established as the first President of the United State?
400
Importing raw materials from colonies, manufacturing goods, and exporting those manufactured goods back to the colonies.
What is England's/mother country's role in the mercantilist system?
400
These are the two reasons that the colony of Georgia was established by James Oglethorpe in 1733.
What are: it was a buffer colony between Spanish Florida and the other British colonies, and it was a debtor colony where English people who owed money could settle.
400
This engraving of the Boston Massacre by Paul Revere is an example of this type of communication which tries to influence public opinion, often by only presenting one side of an argument. 
What is propaganda?
400
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures:"
"For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:"
"For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:"
What are grievances/complaints against King George III/British listed in the Declaration of Independence?
400
The principle of government that divides legislative, executive, and judicial powers into three branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
400
These three letters of the alphabet represented the names of the French agents who demanded a bribe from Americans during a dispute between France and the United States.
What are X, Y, and Z?
500
South of France's Canadian colonies, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and north of Spain's North American colonies in Florida and Mexico.
Where were England's/Britain's 13 colonies in North America located?
500
This is a religious movement beginning in the American colonies in the 1730s that played a role in unifying the colonies and led to religious tolerance.
What was the First Great Awakening?
500
This group, led by Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, was responsible for the Boston Tea Party, which dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
500
The painting "Washington's Crossing of the Delaware" depicts events before the American's surprise victory at which battle in late 1776.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
500
During the Constitutional Convention, this combined the Virginia and the New Jersey Plans, creating a bicameral legislative branch with a lower house (the House of Representatives) based on population and an upper house (the Senate) with each state getting two senators.
What is the Great Compromise?
500
Warnings for the United States to "steer clear of permanent alliances" with other nations and against the growing threat of political parties.
What are parts of George Washington's Farewell Address?