Historical Context
Geography and Economy
Government
Early Conflicts
Revolution
100

What are places on the other side of Eurasia that the Europeans traded with for goods?

What is China? 

AND/OR 

What is India?

100

What are the three colonial regions of British North America?

What are New England, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies?

100

What kind of government and economic system did the British have that made rules for trade in the colonies?

What is mercantilism?

100

What is a conflict between Britain and France over territory in North America?

What is the French & Indian war?

100

What is a document that the Americans wrote that told the British what they wanted?

What is the Declaration of Independence?

200

Social reason why the Europeans needed to find new trade routes?

What is conflict with Muslims in the Ottoman Empire/along the Silk Road?

200

What economic activity did New England focus on primarily?

What are natural resources and/or manufacturing?

200
What is the British policy that mostly left the colonists alone in exchange for trade?

What is Salutary Neglect?

200

What did the colonists want that the French had?

What is land west of the Appalachian Mountains and/or the Ohio River Valley?

200

What are two groups of people that did not agree about what should happen at the Second Continental Congress?

What are Loyalists and Patriots?

300

Many different foods and tools show that Native American societies had very different ________?

What is cultures and/or societies?

300

What economic activity did the Southern Colonies focus on primarily? Why?

What is agriculture? What is fertile soil?

300

What kind of government developed in the colonies because of British policies?

What is representative government?

300

What action did the British take after the conflict with France that angered the colonists (at least 3)?

What are the Stamp Act, Tea Act, Townshend Acts, Quartering Act, and Intolerable Acts?

300

What is a pamphlet written to convince people to become patriots during the Revolution?

What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?

400

Economic reason Europeans needed to find new trade routes?

What is trade with Muslims was very expensive due to taxes and/or dangerous trade routes?
400

What geographic feature made trade with Europe easier?

What are waterways and/or natural harbors?

400

What is are two example of governments in the colonies (Virginia & New England)?

What are the House of Burgesses and town hall meetings?

400

What conflict led to several crates of tea being dumped into the Atlantic Ocean to protest British laws?

What is the Boston Tea Party?

400

What are some (at least three) advantages that the British had during the Revolution?

What are military experience, money, and Native American support? (and/or large military, weapons, American loyalists)

500

What was the impact on Native Americans of contact with Europeans?

What is a severe reduction in population of the Native Americans due to war and disease?

500

What kind of workers were primarily responsible for agricultural work in the colonies (particularly the Southern Colonies)?

What are enslaved persons (from Africa)?

500

What is a border created after the conflict with the French that made the American colonists very angry?

What is the Proclamation Line?

500

What is a reason that colonists were angry about new laws passed by the British?

What is the Proclamation Line and/or "no taxation without representation"?

500

What are some (at least three) advantages that the Americans had during the Revolution?

What are alliances with the French, better knowledge of geography, and guerilla warfare? (and/or British distance from home, help from the Spanish/Dutch, French supplies/military training)