Colonial Foundations
Established in 1607, this was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This economic system required colonies to supply raw materials and purchase manufactured goods from their mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Benjamin Franklin’s famous political cartoon used this phrase to encourage colonial unity.
What is “Join, or Die”?
Colonists used this slogan to argue that Parliament could not tax them without their consent.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
Colonists used this method of economic protest by refusing to purchase British goods.
What is a boycott?
This terrorist organization planned the attacks over several years.
What is Al-Queda?
This cash crop helped Jamestown survive economically but increased the colony’s demand for labor.
What is Tobacco?
These laborers agreed to work for several years in exchange for passage to America.
What are indentured servants?
This 1754 plan proposed a unified colonial government but was rejected by the colonies.
What was the Albany Plan of Union?
This 1765 law placed a direct tax on printed materials, including newspapers and legal documents.
What was the Stamp Act?
These harsh laws, passed after the Boston Tea Party, closed Boston Harbor and limited Massachusetts self-government.
What were the Intolerable Acts, also called the Coercive Acts?
The third plane crashed into this edifice.
What is the Pentagon?
Signed aboard a ship in 1620, this agreement established self-government in Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This three-part trading system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the triangular trade?
Known in Europe as the Seven Years’ War, this conflict gave Britain control of much of France’s territory in North America.
What was the French and Indian War?
This colonial protest organization included leaders such as Samuel Adams and organized resistance to British policies.
What were the Sons of Liberty?
Representatives from twelve colonies gathered at this 1774 meeting to coordinate resistance to Britain.
What was the First Continental Congress?
The President was doing this when he heard the news...?
What is reading a children's book to youngsters?
Founded by William Penn, this colony welcomed Quakers and promoted religious toleration.
What is Pennsylvania?
This period of increased religious enthusiasm during the 1730s and 1740s challenged traditional religious authority.
What was the First Great Awakening?
Britain issued this order in 1763 to prevent colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
During this 1770 confrontation, British soldiers killed five colonists in Boston.
What was the Boston Massacre?
The first battles of the American Revolution occurred in these two Massachusetts towns in April 1775.
What was Lex. and Concord?
The fourth plane did not connect with its target. Consequently it landed in a field here.
What is Shanksville, Pa.?
Established in 1619, this representative assembly allowed Virginia colonists to participate in government.
What is the Va. House of Burgesses?
This 1676 uprising in Virginia exposed tensions between wealthy planters and frontier settlers.
What was Bacon’s Rebellion?
This Native American leader organized resistance against British expansion after the French and Indian War.
Who was Pontiac?
Colonists responded to the Tea Act by carrying out this famous protest on December 16, 1773.
What was the Boston tea Party?
This 1775 petition represented the colonists’ final attempt to restore peace with King George III.
What was the Olive Branch Petition?
"W" vowed revenge and attack these respective places. Please name the places and the year the American forces launched.
What was Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003)?