Founding the Colonies
St. Augustine, Florida was this number European colony founded in the modern-day United States.
What is the first?
This practice of owning another human being as property and forcing them to work was legal in most European colonies.
What is slavery?
This geometric term describes the sale of raw materials, manufactured goods, and enslaved people between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This method was used by enslaved people to escape under the cover of night, or when no one was looking.
What is running away/the Underground Railroad?
In this video game series, you play as a night watchman keeping safe from the murderous animatronics in a pizza parlor.
What is Five Nights at Freddy's?
Most of the colonists at this English colony died during the first few years.
What is Jamestown?
After seeing the "Liberty" banner during the Stono Rebellion, many colonies made it illegal for enslaved people to learn how to do this.
What is read/write?
These white Europeans weren't slaves, since they had to be freed after 5-10 years, but they were forced to work alongside enslaved Africans.
What are Indentured Servants?
When this word comes before the word "rebellion," it means that the people rebelling were carrying weapons.
What is armed?
This planet, named for the Roman king of the gods, is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This colony was named after George Calvert, Lord Baltimore.
What is Baltimore?
Because its founder, Lord Baltmore, wanted a safe place for Catholics to worship, this colony helped create the American ideal of religious equality.
What is Maryland/Baltimore?
This plant, dried up and smoked, is one of many enslaved people were forced to grow.
What is tobacco?
The practice of bringing a slave owner to court in order to win freedom from a judge is known as this.
What is a freedom suit?
This word means: "an area of land under full or partial control of another country."
What is a colony?
This colony was abandoned after all of the colonists disappeared, leaving only the word "Croatoan" behind.
What is Roanoke?
Whether hoping to get out of debt or strike it rich, many colonists came to America hoping to get more of this.
What is money (or gold)?
The first slaves brought to a British colony came here in 1619.
Many colonists began to resist the King of England when the British government forced them to pay these.
What are taxes?
This president, the signer of the Emancipation Proclamation, is on the penny and the five dollar bill.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This November holiday is celebrated in rememberance of a feast held between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians in Plymouth Massachusetts.
What is Thanksgiving?
This document, named after the ship the Pilgrims sailed on, influenced the structure of the United States Government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Enslaved people on these sailing vehicles "had not so much room as a man in his coffin."
What are slave ships?
After the Spanish promised freedom to enslaved people who made it to St. Augustine, the first European colony in the modern United States, an enslaved man named Jemmy led over 100 slaves in an armed rebellion known as this.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
These books, video games, and Netflix series are inspired by the adventures of a monster hunter known as Geralt of Rivia.
What is The Witcher?