Exploration and Colonization
The first permanent English settlement (1607).
What is Jamestown?
Economy based on fishing, lumbering, and shipbuilding.
What are the New England colonies.
The event where colonists dumped British tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The European allies to the colonists.
What are Spain and France?
Agreement on how slaves would count for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
A building material made from water, clay, silt, and plant materials.
What is adobe?
Region known for fertile soil, plantations, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
What are the Southern colonies.
King George's response to the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
A French officer who joined the colonists in war and persuaded French nobles to send aid.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
The third president of the United States of America.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Three reasons for17th-century European exploration.
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
The "Lost Colony" off the coast of North Carolina.
What is Roanoke?
Name of the colonial group that organized protests and boycotts (led by Samuel Adams).
What are the Sons of Liberty?
One of the first battles between the colonist and British. "The shot heard 'round the world."
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
A group of structures, often stacked vertically, made of natural materials. Also the name for small towns in the Spanish colonies.
What is pueblo?
A religious group fleeing persecution and who established Plymouth.
Who are the Pilgrims?
Taxed paper goods, leading to the slogan "No taxation without representation."
What is the Stamp Act?
The turning point of the war; convinced France to become an ally.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Political party led by Hamilton, favored a strong central government.
Who are the Federalists?
Indigenous religious belief that considers all things--rocks, rivers, animals, etc--possess a distinct soul or essence.
What is Animism?
System where raw materials are sent to the mother country to produce goods.
What is Mercantilism?
Prohibited westward expansion over the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The pamphlet by Thomas Paine that persuaded many colonists to support independence.
What is Common Sense?
The rebellion that showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?