Terms
Acts
Events
Colonies
Colonist
100
A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa
What is the triangular trade route?
100
The contract to end the war against Britain and France.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
100
Bacon and his followers burned Jamestown, when the governor tried to stop him.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
100
A colony established in 1607.
What was the first colony?
100
A quaker who founded Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Who is William Penn?
200
A legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
An act that put taxes on many documents to show prove of pavement.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
Most Native Americans were on the French side.
Which side did the Native Americans take in the French & Indian War?
200
They faced famine, lack of preparation, useless skills, diseases, and harsh weather.
What problems did the settlers face in Virginia?
200
A man who split land into New York and New Jersey.
Who is James Duke of York?
300
Where slaves were brought in a voyage
What is the Middle Passage?
300
An act where only colonists could purchase tea from England.
What is the Tea Act?
300
An event when colonists dress as Indians and boarded on three Tea ships docked in the Boston Harbor. They destroyed three hundred chests of tea.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
showing independence by passing own code of laws
what is Massachusetts
300
A woman married to John Rolfe by force and died on third year of marriage.
Who is Pocahontas ?
400
The Enlightenment was a movement that place during the 1700's. It was when people believed reasoning and logic could improve society.
What is the Enlightenment?
400
An act that put taxes on sugar and molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
400
A shooting between colonists and British Soldiers .
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
harvest cash crops like tobacco,rice and indigo(dye)
What is Southern Colonies?
400
An Indian who helped the colonists survive by teaching them to farm.
Who is Squanto ?
500
The belief in the benefits of profitable trading
What is mercantilism?
500
A Maryland law that made restricting religious right a crime.
What is the Tolerable Act?
500
A law that said colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
500
King Charles the II gave much of the land to Virginia and Spanish Florida to eight of his supporters.
What is Carolina and Georgia?
500
Jamestown's savior.
Who is John Smith?
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