Exploration
What is the movement of people from one region to another, often for food, land, or opportunity?
What is migration?
What was the first English colony in North America that mysteriously disappeared?
What is Roanoke?
What two main European countries were fighting in the French and Indian War?
What are Britain and France?
What act placed taxes on imported sugar and molasses?
What is the Sugar Act?
What group organized protests and boycotts against British taxes?
What is the Sons of Liberty?
Which European country led the way in sea exploration along Africa’s coast to find a route to Asia?
What is Portugal?
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
What is Jamestown?
Which group usually sided with the French during the war?
Who are the Native Americans?
What act required colonists to house and feed British soldiers?
What is the Quartering Act?
What violent event occurred when British soldiers fired into a crowd of protesting colonists?
What is the Boston Massacre?
Which European power explored and conquered much of the Americas, motivated by gold, glory, and God?
What is Spain?
Who helped Jamestown survive by enforcing discipline and making a peace with the Powhatan tribe?
Who is John Smith?
What group usually sided with the British during the war?
Who are the colonists?
What act taxed printed materials like newspapers and legal documents?
What is the Stamp Act?
What protest destroyed British tea in response to unfair taxes?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Who was the explorer sponsored by Spain who believed he could reach Asia by sailing west?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
What cash crop saved Jamestown’s economy and became its main source of wealth?
What is tobacco?
What were Native Americans mainly fighting to protect?
What is their land and trade networks?
What act allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to colonists?
What is the Tea Act?
How did colonists show unity in opposing British rule?
The opposed by organizing together and creating early forms of government and protest.
What trade system brought enslaved Africans to the Americas and sent goods like sugar and rum to Europe?
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade? (or Triangle Trade)
Who was the Native American woman who helped the English settlers and later married John Rolfe?
Who is Pocahontas?
How did the war affect the relationship between Britain and its colonies?
Tt created tension as Britain began taxing and controlling the colonies more.
What did Britain use to force colonists into obedience, including the use of soldiers?
What is military coercion?
What was the name for pre-independence currency that made some people rich when sold back to the government?
What are continentals?