Early colonization
The colony founded in 1607 in Virginia
What is Jamestown
The war fought between colonists and Native groups in New England in 1675.
What is King Philip’s War?
The event in 1770 where British soldiers killed five colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The first constitution used by the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The document that guided early colonial self rule in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The group that settled Plymouth in 1620
Who were the pilgrims?
The war fought between colonists and Native groups in New England in 1675.
What is the Triangular Trade?
The 1773 protest against a tax on tea.
What is the Boston tea party
The compromise that created two houses in Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
What is Shay rebellion
The cash crop that drove early Virginia growth.
What is tobacco
The law that restricted colonial trade to British ships.
What are the Navigation Acts?
The first battles in 1775.
What are Lexington and Concord?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
The compromise in 1820 that balanced free and slave states.
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What is the Missouri Compromise?
The system that granted land to settlers who paid passage for others.
hat is the headright system?
The religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the Great Awakening?
The document written in 1776 to break from Britain.
What is the deceleration of independence?
The purchase in 1803 that doubled U.S. land.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The 1848 meeting that pushed for women’s rights.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The revolt of frontier farmers in 1676 against Virginia leaders.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
The philosopher who influenced colonial ideas of natural rights
Who is John Locke?
The battle that convinced France to support the rebels.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The 1823 policy warning Europe to stay out of the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine
The set of laws in 1865 and 1866 that restricted freedom for Black people in the South.
What are Black Codes