Colonial America
What cash crop saved Jamestown and became a major export to England?
Tobacco
What crop was a staple of many Native American diets and crucial to early agriculture?
Maize/Corn
What 1776 document formally declared the colonies independent from Britain?
Declaration of Independence
Who authored Common Sense, urging independence?
Thomas Paine
What document created the first national government of the U.S.?
Articles of Confederation
Which colony was founded by the Pilgrims in 1620?
Plymouth (Massachusetts Bay Colony)
Which Native American group created a powerful political alliance in the Northeast?
Iroquois Confederacy
What was the name of the 1765 tax that caused a major uproar among colonists?
Stamp Act
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What 1763 British policy forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachians?
Proclamation of 1763
The economy of the Southern colonies relied heavily on what type of labor system?
Plantation Slavery
What is the term for the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the New World and Old World?
Columbian Exchange
The Boston Tea Party protested what 1773 British law?
Tea Act
What Enlightenment thinker most influenced ideas like natural rights?
John Locke
Name the compromise at the Constitutional Convention that created a bicameral legislature.
Great Compromise/Connecticut Compromise
Name one of the two main cash crops grown in South Carolina.
Rice or Indigo
The Pueblo Revolt in 1680 occurred in response to colonization by which European power?
Spain
Name the event where British soldiers killed five colonists in 1770.
Boston Massacre
Who served as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution?
George Washington
What document outlined U.S. grievances against the King of England?
Declaration of Independence
Which 1739 rebellion saw enslaved Africans rise up in South Carolina?
Which explorer’s expedition first extensively documented contact with the Mississippian peoples?
Hernando de Soto
What rebellion showed weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation?
Shays' Rebellion
This first lady advocated for women's education and wrote "Remember the Ladies."
Abigail Adams
What 1787 law set up the process for admitting new states from western territories?