Early Exploration
European Colonization
The 13 Colonies
Road to Revolution
Revolutionary War
Geography
100
The exchange of goods, animals, and diseases between the new and old world was referred to as this
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
The first successful attempt at colonization by the British in the New World (though it nearly failed).
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
100
This colony was founded in 1636 for the purposes of religious freedom.
What is Rhode Island?
100
The first tax ever levied on American colonists by the British government. The Act imposed a tax on all paper documents and tried to collect revenue from American colonists in order to get the British out of debt from the 7 Years War.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
The War for American Independence started with the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" at this battle.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
100
Starting in present-day Minnesota and ending in present-day Louisiana, this mighty river creates the Western border of the United States after the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
This 1494 treaty, helped in part by the Pope, divided the unexplored world between Portugal and Spain.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
200
He argued for separation of church and state and wanted to reform the Anglican church completely. He was thrown out and he started his own settlement where he could practice his own beliefs.
Who is Roger Williams?
200
Colonists who could not afford their own trip to the new world would have it paid for them and would work off the debt, participating in this form of service.
What is Indentured Servitude?
200
In 1773, the Sons of Liberty gathered and descended on Boston Harbor while dressed as Native Americans, boarded three ships, and threw over 340 chests of tea into the sea.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
The battle that shifted the Revolutionary War in favor of the Americans. After this victory, the French decided to join the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
200
This Massachusetts peninsula gets its name from the fish that early explorers found in great numbers in the waters it surrounds.
What is Cape Cod?
300
This agricultural good, now synonymous with Italian cuisine, only arrived in Europe after Columbus's discovery of the New World.
What are tomatoes?
300
The phenomenon that occurred when tens of thousands of Puritans moved from Europe to the Americas, but mostly to New England
What is the Great Migration?
300
This new religion followed an inner light and personal experience with God. Rejected original sin and predetermination, and was favored by Pennsylvanians and people who like oats.
What is the Society of Friends/Quakers?
300
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that argued against the idea of hereditary rule and urged American colonists to declare Independence from the British. Was the first time these ideas were written in a way ordinary people could comprehend and discuss.
What is Common Sense?
300
The '77-'78 winter encampment of George Washington’s army where disease and a lack of supplies, food, and proper clothing nearly caused the collapse of the Continental Army.
What is Valley Forge?
300
Starting where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers meet in present-day Pittsburgh, this river flows its way west, creating the north-south border of many states today.
What is the Ohio River?
400
Signed by both "Saints" and "Strangers," (as long as they were men,) this document helped to organize a system of rules and order, before disembarking the ship and establishing Plymouth colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
The daughter of Powhatan. She was later married to John Rolfe and brought to England as a form of propaganda and a "new world savage tamed." Unfortunately, she died in England.
Who is Pocahontas?
400
Although it made sense for the time, Ben Franklin's political cartoon, "Join, or Die." leaves out which two original colonies?
What are Delaware and Georgia?
400
Captained by Lieutenant William Duddingston, this Royal Navy schooner ran aground at Namquid Point, where it was burnt by Rhode Islanders.
What is the HMS Gaspee?
400
The Green Mountain Boys sacked Fort Ticonderoga while being led by Ethan Allen, and this now infamous traitor (who the eggs are not named after).
Who is Benedict Arnold?
400
Britain's Proclamation of 1763 uses this natural geographic feature to establish the line which Colonists couldn't cross.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
500
Scientists discovered that Polynesians may have made first contact with the Americas through this type of evidence.
What is DNA evidence?
(sweet potatoes)
500
Before the city was called was New York, it was called this.
What is New Amsterdam?
500
This man founded the colony of Maryland as a safe haven for Catholics.
Who is Lord Baltimore?
500
Called the first American to die for independence, he was killed in this 1770 "incident" in Boston.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
500
Sent by General Washington to lead Continental Troops against the Redcoats in the in the south, this native Rhode Islander played a big role in the Battle of Cowpens and throughout the Carolinas.
Who is Nathanael Greene?
500
This present-day state was a part of the land reserved for Indians following the American War for Independence.
What is Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, or West Virginia?
600
This tribe that resides in present-day New York has been called "real snakes" by French and English speakers for centuries.
Who are the Haudensaunee/Iroquois
600
This economic system, focusing on there being a finite amount of resources and competition to secure and sell them, is what many European powers practiced once colonies were established in the Americas.
What is mercantilism?
600
Often used to refer to property, this word describes the type of slavery that existed in the 13 colonies.
What is chattel?
600
The European name for the war that lasted from 1754-1763 between the French and British, largely over the control of land in North America. Featured Native Americans joining the French to fight against the British.
What is the Seven Years War?
600
This Prussian military officer joined George Washington and his men at Valley Forge and trained Continental troops until they looked like a proper army
Who is Baron Wilhelm Friedrich von Steuben?
600
These are the five Great Lakes, in order from biggest to smallest by surface area.
What is Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario?