Early Settlement
This group of Immigrants left Europe seeking religious freedom
Who are the pilgrims?
This cash crop was the foundation of wealth for the southern colonies.
What is tobacco?
This event ending in the deaths of 5 colonists, led to heightened tension between the British army and the colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
These towns were the location of the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord?
The branch of the federal government that creates and modifies laws
What is congress (the legislative branch)?
The name of the rock where the pilgrims landed.
What is Plymouth Rock?
The first successful English Settlement in the United States.
What is Jamestown?
This tax on all paper documents led to further calls for independence from the colonists.
What is the Stamp Act?
The city where the declaration of independence was signed.
What is the Philadelphia Pennsylvania?
The branch of the federal government that signs bills into law and decides how to enact those laws.
What is the executive branch?
This civilization located in modern day Mexico was one of the largest in the world.
Who are the Aztecs?
The oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the United States.
What is St. Augustine Florida?
These acts placed a tax on imported goods to the colonies and led to a boycott and eventual repeal.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The commander in chief of the Continental Army and first president.
Who is George Washington?
The branch of the federal government that decides the constitutionality of laws.
What is the Supreme Court (judicial branch)?
The name of the Scandinavian explorer who is credited as the first European to land in North America.
Who is Leif Erikson?
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This act of rebellion against the British crown led the Boston harbor being shut down.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
A French nobleman who was sympathetic to the colonists fight for independence, who sailed across the Atlantic to fight the British.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
The terms used to describe how the branches of the federal government share power and interrupt each other.
What are checks and balances?
This cluster of mounds is the only thing left over from an ancient city in the America Midwest.
What are the Cahokia Mounds?
The four primary European countries settling in America.
What is England, Spain, Portugal, and France?
The author of the declaration of independence and founding father.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The nickname given to a legendary woman who stepped in to operate artillery when her husband was wounded.
Who is Molly Pitcher?
This term describes a government in which a central government shares power with the states, each with distinct powers and some shared powers.
What is federalism?