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The common food Natives grew

What is corn?

100

What was the motive for colonization in America?

What is God, Gold and Glory?
100

The first settlement in America

What is Jamestown?

100
Three Acts that lead to the Revolution

What is the Stamp Act, Tea Act, Intolerable Act, Sugar act etc?

200
The year Columbus came to the West

What is 1492?

200

The Mayflower Compact

What is the first self governing document in America?

200

The first continental congress

What is where the colonies agreed to boycott British goods and discuss how to react to British taxation?

200

Torture methods of Columbus

What is cutting off ears, noses, hands, burning alive, being hung, being hunted by dogs, etc?

300
The area Columbus thought he landed in

What is India?

300

What the Southern Colonies known for

What is agriculture? 

300

The 2nd continental congress

What is when war was prepared on and independence was declared?

300

This was meant to keep peace between the colonies and the British but King George ignored it

What is the Olive Branch Proposal?

400
The place Columbus actually landed in

What is Hispaniola, the Caribbean? 

400
A religious group who settled in America to avoid religious persecution and landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts. This group also wrote the Mayflower compact.

Who are the Pilgrims?

400

Shays rebellion

What is where farmers and vets rebelled over taxation in Massachusetts?

400
Free trade which is focused around profit

What is mercantilism? 

500

What made Native communities a complex society?

What is having residential communities, religions, consistent sources of food, sciences, community leaders, etc?

500
Bartholomew de Las Casas 

Who is the person who influenced the Spanish to enslave Africans?

500

This religious group thought to purify the church and had no religious tolerance. 

Who are the Puritans?

500

The weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

What is lack of power to tax, regulate commerce, impose tariffs and form armies?

500
This group of black people ruled Spain before 1492

Who are the Moors?

600

The 3/5ths compromise

What is how states resolved the issue of representation in Congress through population? For every 5 slaves, they equaled 3 people and this would determine how much each state would pay in taxes.
600

The Electoral College

What is when states get a set number of electors to vote for president based off the number of representatives they have in Congress? Whoever wins the popular vote in the state, wins the full amount of elector votes.