The 13 Colonies
Vocabulary
Events that Led to the Revolution
Famous People
Important Documents, Acts, and Proclamations
100

This was the name of the first English colony in North America

What is Jamestown?

100

This is a word that means to have sharp powers of judgement.  

What is shrewd?

100

This was the nation of native tribes that fought alongside the French during the French - Indian War in 1754.

What is the Iroquois Nation?

100

He wore a military outfit to the second Continental Congress to show that he was prepared for war.  

Who is George Washington?

100

This was an agreement that was signed by fifty of the settlers that landed at Plymouth.  

What is the May Flower Compact?

200

This colony was first settled by the Puritans.

What is Massachusetts?

200

This was a term during the Revolutionary War that meant you were on the side of the King.  

What is 'loyalist'

200

This image was in protest of what British tax placed on the colonies.  

What is the Stamp Act?

200

He was captured by the Powhatan tribe and survived because the natives were taken aback by his compass.  

Who is John Smith?

200

These thirteen statements are considered the first constitution.  

What are the The Articles of Confederation?

300

This colony was given to the Penn family in order to pay back a debt owed by the King.  

What is Pennsylvania?

300

These are the type of rights that were declared in the Declaration of Independance.

What are 'inalienable' or 'unalienable'?
300

This was the colony that did not attend the first continental congress because it was receiving military aid from the British to fight off native tribes.  

What is Georgia?

300

This was the last name of the James who founded the colony of Georgia.

What is Oglethorpe?

300

This proclamation created an 'Indian Territory' west of the Appalachian Mountains.  

What is the Proclamation of 1763?

400

This colony was taken by the English and given a 'New' name. 

What is New York?

400

This was the name that distinguished the separatist puritan from the non-separatist puritans.  

What is Pilgrim?

400

He is often referred to the first martyr of the American Revolution because he was the first to die during the Boston Massacre.  

Who is Crispus Attucks?

400

He was the first governor of the Plymouth colony.

Who is William Bradford?

400

These are the first three word of the current U.S. Constitution.

What are 'We the people'?

500

This region of the 13 colonies became the manufacturing center.

What is New England?

500

These were the type of businesses that help fund a majority of the first thirteen British colonies in North America.  

What are joint stock companies?

500

This was the town where the first skirmish between British and colonial soldiers happened.  

What is Lexington?

500

Anne Hutchinson moved to this newly formed colony because she was banished from Massachusetts.  

What is Rhode Island?

500

The Fundamental Constitution of Carolina established a feudal government for these eight men? 

Who are the Lord Proprietors?