Early Settlement
Colonial Era
Road to Revolt
The Revolution
The Government
100

This group of Immigrants left Europe seeking religious freedom

Who are the pilgrims?

100

This cash crop was the foundation of wealth for the southern colonies.

What is tobacco? 

100

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?

100

These towns were the location of the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War.

What is Lexington and Concord?

100

The branch of the federal government that creates and modifies laws

What is congress (the legislative branch)?

200

The name of the rock where the pilgrims landed.

What is Plymouth Rock?

200

The first successful English Settlement in the United States.

What is Jamestown?

200

This tax on all paper documents led to further calls for independence from the colonists.

What is the Stamp Act?

200

The city where the declaration of independence was signed.

What is the Philadelphia Pennsylvania? 

200

The branch of the federal government that signs bills into law and decides how to enact those laws.

What is the executive branch?

300

This civilization located in modern day Mexico was one of the largest in the world.

Who are the Aztecs?

300

The oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the United States.

What is St. Augustine Florida?

300

These acts placed a tax on imported goods to the colonies and led to a boycott and eventual repeal.

What are the Townshend Acts?

300

The commander in chief of the Continental Army and first president.

Who is George Washington?

300

The branch of the federal government that decides the constitutionality of laws.

What is the Supreme Court (judicial branch)?

400

The name of the Scandinavian explorer who is credited as the first European to land in North America. 

Who is Leif Erikson?

400
This confederacy, made up of dozens of east coast Native American tribes still exists to this day. 

What is the Iroquois Confederacy?

400

This act of rebellion against the British crown led the Boston harbor being shut down.

What is the Boston Tea Party?

400

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? 

400

The terms used to describe how the branches of the federal government share power and interrupt each other.

What are checks and balances?

500

This cluster of mounds is the only thing left over from an ancient city in the America Midwest.

What are the Cahokia Mounds?

500

The four primary European countries settling in America.

What is England, Spain, Portugal, and France?

500

The author of the declaration of independence and founding father.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

500

The nickname given to a legendary woman who stepped in to operate artillery when her husband was wounded.

Who is Molly Pitcher?

500

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?

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