Continents
Terms
Acts
100
Which continent is pictured?
Asia
100
What is this called?
Isthmus
100
What was the Sugar Act?
It provided for a strongly enforced tax on sugar, molasses, and other products imported into the American colonies from non-British Caribbean sources
200
Which continent is pictured?
North America
200
What is a cartographer?
Someone who makes maps.
200
What was the Stamp Act?
Tax on paper
300
What is the highlighted continent pictured?
South America
300
What is the difference between an expedition and navigation?
Navigation-planning and following a route.
Expedition- a journey especially by a group of people for a specific purpose (such as to explore a distant place or to do research)
300
What was the Tea Act?
Taxes were placed on tea which were consumed by people in England quite a lot!
400
What are the continents colored in blue and purple?
Blue-Austrailia
Purple-Africa
400
What was the Mayflower Compact? Why is it significant to history?
It was an agreement between the settlers of Plymouth and was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
400
What was the Quartering Act?
Colonists were forced to house British Soldiers. (Quartering meaning living quarters)
500
What continents are the green, orange, and yellow?
Green- Europe
Orange- Asia
Yellow- North America
500
What does Plymouth have to do with history?
Plymouth Colony was the first permanent English colony in New England from 1620 and the third permanent English colony in America, after Newfoundland and the Jamestown Colony. It was settled by the passengers on the Mayflower at a location that had previously been surveyed and named by Captain John Smith.
For the next few months, many of the settlers stayed on the Mayflower while ferrying back and forth to shore to build their new settlement. In March, they began moving ashore permanently. More than half the settlers fell ill and died that first winter, victims of an epidemic of disease that swept the new colony.
Soon after they moved ashore, the Pilgrims were introduced to a Native American man named Tisquantum, or Squanto, who would become a member of the colony. A member of the Pawtuxet tribe (from present-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island) who had been kidnapped by the explorer John Smith and taken to England, only to escape back to his native land, Squanto acted as an interpreter and mediator between Plymouth’s leaders and local Native Americans, including Chief Massasoit of the Pokanoket tribe. This later lead to the First Thanksgiving.
500
All of these "Acts" took place during which major war?
The Revolutionary War of The American Revolution