This term refers to the horrible journey that enslaved Africans were forced to endure across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
100
While Americans referred to this conflict as the French and Indian War, the British called the conflict this.
What was the Seven Years War?
100
This law passed a tax on all printed items within the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
This term is used to describe a legislature with two houses.
What is bicameral?
100
Thomas Jefferson made the largest land deal in history, when he paid the French 15 million dollars for this.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
200
Due to rocky soil and long cold winters, the colonies in this region depended largely on shipping and trade to support their economy.
What were the New England Colonies?
200
In an effort to prevent any further trouble with Native Americans, King George III issued this order to stop any colonial movement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
200
This Boston silversmith was famous for his engraving of the Boston Massacre.
Who was Paul Revere?
200
This branch of the government makes the law.
What is the legislative branch?
200
This Chief swore that he would not leave his land until the last drop of Seminole blood moistened the dust of his hunting ground.
Who was Osceola?
300
Using this series of trade routes between the 13 colonies, Africa, and the West Indies is how many New England merchants made their fortunes.
What is the Triangular Trade?
300
As a member of the Virginia militia, he was ordered to build a colonial fort in the Ohio River valley.
Who was George Washington?
300
She wrote many letters to her husband in the Second Continental Congress requesting that both he and the Congress "Remember the Ladies".
Who was Abigail Adams?
300
This man is known as the "Father of the Constitution".
Who was James Madison?
300
This famous Supreme Court case established the court's power of Judicial Review.
What was Marbury v. Madison?
400
These colonies enjoyed warm weather and rich fertile soil which would allow a plantation economy to grow and prosper.
What were the Southern Colonies?
400
This famous American patriot tried to unite the colonies long before the American Revolution with a plan he called the Albany Plan of Union.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
400
In an effort to punish Boston, and recoup the money lost from the Boston Tea Party, King George III asked Parlaiment to pass these laws.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
400
In this deal, small states and big states agreed to have two houses of Congress. One house to be elected based on the population of the states, and the other to have equal representation from all the states.
What was the Great Compromise?
400
In this agreement with Spain, the United States gained control over Florida in exchange for 5 million dollars in debt forgiveness.
What was the Adams-Onis Treaty?
500
She was a Powahatan princess who helped bring peace between her people and the settlers of Jamestown. She also married an Englishman named John Rolfe.
Who was Pocahontas?
500
In an effort to pay off the tremendous war debt accumulated from the war, Britain would attempt to raise revenue by passing these on the colonies.
What are taxes?
500
George Washington and the Continental Army, with help from the French fleet, forced General Cornwallis to surrender in this final battle of the American Revoltution.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
500
The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
This was the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War.