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Geography & Early Development
Foundation of American Society
Notable People
Independence
Early National Government
100
Names of mountain ranges in the United States.
What are the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains?
100
The most powerful government in the Eastern Woodlands Native Americans.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
100
Worked in Colonial legistatures to introduce resolutions opposing British taxation.
Who was Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams?
100
The Boston Tea Party was a reaction to this.....
What is the Tea Act of 1773?
100
This document was the first constitution of the US.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
200
In the Southern Colonies, long hot summers gave rise to these industries.
What are the tobacco and cotton industries?
200
Names of early colonial settlements.
What are Jamestown(1607) and Plymouth(1620)?
200
The name given to the Colonists who supported the King and the obedience to English laws.
What are the Tories or Loyalists?
200
Colonies sent representatives to Philadelphia to this gathering to plan a response to British actions.
What is the First Continental Congress?
200
Why the Articles of Confederation created a weak national government.
What is the desire of individual states to protect their powers and fear of a strong central government?
300
In the Northern Colonies, major ports in Boston and Salem spurred the growth of these industries.
What fishing and shipbuilding?
300
Reasons why Colonists came to America.
What is religious freedom, economic opportunity and political freedom?
300
The man who proposed the "Albany Plan of Union" modeled after the Iroquois Confederacy.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
The purpose of the Declaration of Independence.
What is to justify reasons why the US decided to become independent?
300
The powers of the national government under the Articles of the Confederation.
What are signing treaties, declaring war, and receiving ambassadors?
400

In the Middle Colonies, economies and industries in cities like New York and Philadelphia grew because of near by fertile soil which contributed to prosperous: 

What trade and farming?

400
Name of trade between West Indies, Africa and the Colonies.
What is Triangle Trade?
400
The man who was the Colonial Commander and Chief.
Who is George Washington?
400

Name of European nation inspired by the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

What is France?

400
Weaknesses of the Articles of the Confederation.
What is no single national currency, Congress could not vote directly on taxes, no national judiciary, and the national government had to ask permission of the states to raise an army?
500

Native American life was greatly influenced by this.....

What is the environment?

500
Framers of the Constitution were strongly influenced by these philosophers.
Who are the Enlightenment Thinkers: John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire?
500
The name of the men who negotiated the Treaty of Paris at the end of the Revolutionary War.
Who are John Adams, John Jay and Benjamin Franklin?
500
The nation that was in alliance with the Americans during the Revolution.
What is France?
500
Number of states that were necessary to ratify the Articles of the Confederation.
What is 13 states?