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This act required colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
In the Southern colonies, this cash crop was a major export and relied on enslaved labor for cultivation.
What is tobacco?
At the start of the war, this young British officer built Fort Necessity, only to surrender it shortly after.
Who is George Washington?
Colonists in Virginia created this first representative assembly in the Americas in 1619.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This conflict in 1636–1638 nearly wiped out an entire Native tribe in New England.
What is the Pequot War?
This 1773 event, in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor, protested taxation policies.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This religious group founded Pennsylvania and promoted tolerance and peace.
Who are the Quakers?
This 1763 treaty ended the French and Indian War, giving Britain control of much of North America.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This 1620 agreement, signed aboard the Mayflower, established a form of self-government for Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This British policy issued after the French and Indian War restricted colonial settlement west of the Appalachians.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
These punitive laws, passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, united the colonies against Britain.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
These agricultural innovations allowed the Middle Colonies to become the breadbasket of colonial America.
What are fertile soil and crop rotation?
During the war, this brightly dressed British general's red-coated troops were ambushed and defeated near Fort Duquesne.
Who is General Edward Braddock?
This act required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials, leading to widespread protests.
What is the Stamp Act?
Native alliances during the French and Indian War were influenced by this economic activity involving animal pelts.
What is the fur trade?
This battle, known as the "shot heard 'round the world," marked the start of the Revolutionary War.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This city in Massachusetts became a hub for trade, shipbuilding, and revolutionary ideas.
What is Boston?
This Native American leader's rebellion against British policies in the Ohio Valley followed the French and Indian War.
Who is Pontiac?
Colonial assemblies controlled this critical power, which allowed them to influence governors by determining tax revenues.
What is the "power of the purse"?
This devastating effect of European colonization led to the loss of 90% of some Native populations.
What are European diseases?
New England colonists gathered at these meetings to discuss local matters, exemplifying direct democracy.
What are town meetings?
This territorial dispute over the Ohio River Valley sparked the French and Indian War.
What is land competition between Britain and France?
This type of colony was governed directly by the king through an appointed governor.
What is a royal colony?
This 1675–1678 war, led by Metacom (King Philip), was one of the bloodiest conflicts in colonial New England.
What is King Philip’s War?
Double Jeopardy! This is Mr. Nash's middle initial
What is the letter V?