Colonization & Settlement
This European country built missions to spread Christianity and searched for gold and silver.
What is Spain
This Native confederacy included the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
These two European powers fought in the French and Indian War.
Who are the French and English?
This is the slogan colonists used to protest taxes without representation.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"
This was America's first governing document.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the first amendment?
This colony was founded by the Dutch and later became New York?
What is New Amsterdam?
This confederacy in Virginia helped the Jamestown settlers at first but later fought wars against them.
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
This Native confederacy mostly sided with the British.
Who are the Iroquois?
This act punished Boston by closing its harbor.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This was the main problem with the Articles of Confederation.
This amendment allows US citizens to carry guns.
What is the Second Amendment?
This was the main economic activity of the French in North America.
What is the fur trade?
This event triggered King Philip’s War in 1675
What is the execution of three Native men accused of killing Sassamon?
This is the land Britain gained after the Treaty of Paris (1763).
What is Canada and all the land east of the Mississippi?
This battle in 1777 convinced France to join the American war effort.
What is Saratoga?
This is the opening phrase of the US Constitution.
What is "We the People"?
This amendment states the right to make their own laws.
What is the 10th Amendment?
This English colony was the first permanent settlement in America.
What is Jamestown
This is the complaint King Philip’s people had about English courts.
What is the natives were ignored?
This battle in 1759 turned the tide of the war in Britain’s favor.
What is the Battle of Quebec?
This 1781 battle in South Carolina boosted American morale.
What is the Battle of Cowpens?
This is how the Constitution fixed the Articles’ problem of equal state votes.
What is a two chamber house with a House of Representatives based on population and a Senate with equal representation, also known as the CT Plan?
This amendment keeps someone from telling on themselves in court or when questioned by the police.
What is the 5th Amedment?
They built permanent farming communities, while these people focused on gold mining and missions.
What are the English and the Spanish?
This event weakened Native power permanently, opening land for English expansion.
What is King Philip's War?
This is how the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution.
What is England's war debt?
This 1781 siege in Virginia basically ended the fighting in the American Revolutionary War.
What is Yorktown?
This is how the Articles of Confederation influenced the Constitution.
What is the Articles became Article 1 and it called for a union of states?
This amendment determines who is and is not a citizen in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?