Exploration & Early Contact
This explorer sailed west in 1492 hoping to find a shorter route to Asia.
Christopher Columbus
This vanished English settlement is known as the “Lost Colony.”
Roanoke
The Pilgrims established their colony at this settlement in present-day Massachusetts.
Plymouth
This phrase summed up the colonial complaint that it was unfair to be taxed without a voice in government.
"No taxation without representation"
This was the major political division during the Washington and Adams years.
Federalists and Democratic-Republican
This term describes the exchange of goods, plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
This word was carved as a clue when Roanoke was found abandoned.
CROATOAN
This group came to New England largely to practice their religion freely.
Puritans
This act faced many printed materials in colonies like news papers and other legal documents.
Stamp Act
Washington's policy in foreign affairs that aimed to keep the US out of European wars.
Neutrality
This European disease killed large numbers of Native Americans after contact.
Small Pox
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Jamestown
This religious group believed in no violence, religious tolerance, and settled in Pennsylvania.
Quakers
This riot in Boston between the colonists and Redcoats caused five people to be killed.
Boston Massacre
This treaty, negotiated during Washington's presidency, tried to avoid war and settle disputes with Britain.
Jay Treaty
Diseases brought by Europeans, especially smallpox, devastated this group in the Americas.
Native Americans
This company sent settlers to found Jamestown.
Virginia Company
This religious movement encouraged people to focus on personal faith and sometimes question authority.
This protest involved colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor
Tea Party
During Adam's presidency, this scandal involved French agents demanding bribes from US diplomats.
XYZ Affair
What long-term effect did European diseases have on Native American societies in the Americas?
Caused massive population decline.
This Jamestown crisis, caused by disease, food shortages, and conflict, nearly destroyed the colony.
The Starving Time
This preacher is famously known for his sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
Johnathan Edwards
These laws were passed to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party and were nicknamed the "Intolerable Acts"
Coercive Acts
These controversial laws under Adams limited immigration and punished some criticism of the government.