Age of Exploration
Sailing for Spain in 1492, he reached the Caribbean while looking for a sea route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Founded in 1607, it was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This 1765 law taxed newspapers, legal papers, and other printed paper in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
The first shots of the war were fired at these two Massachusetts towns in 1775, known as the "Shot heard round the world.
What are Lexington and Concord?
Under the Articles, Congress was this kind of legislature, with only one house
What is unicameral?
This branch of government interprets the laws.
What is the judicial branch?
In 1498, this Portuguese explorer became the first European to reach India by sailing around Africa.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
The Pilgrims signed this agreement to govern themselves aboard their ship in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
In this 1770 event, British soldiers killed five colonists on a Boston street.
What is the Boston Massacre?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the 3rd President.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Under the Articles, Congress could not do this, so it could not raise money to pay its war debts.
What is tax (collect taxes)?
The Virginia Plan based representation in Congress on this.
What is population?
His 1519–1522 expedition was the first to sail around the world, though he died along the way.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Meeting first in 1619, this Virginia assembly was the first elected lawmaking body in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
In 1773, colonists protested a tax by dumping 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This 1777 American victory was the turning point that convinced France to join the war.
What is Saratoga?
This many states had to agree before the Articles could be changed.
What is all 13 (unanimous)?
This deal gave each state 2 senators and based the House on population.
What is the Great Compromise?
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire in 1521
Who is Hernán Cortés?
John Rolfe made this cash crop a success, which saved Jamestown.
What is tobacco?
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This 1754–1763 war against France left Britain deeply in debt, so it began to tax the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
He commanded the Continental Army, presided over the Constitutional Convention, and became the first President.
Who is George Washington?
Shays' Rebellion broke out in this state.
What is Massachusetts?
This compromise counted enslaved people as part of a person for state population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Europeans explored for these 4 reasons
What are God, Glory, Gold, and Curiosity?
William Penn founded this colony as a safe home for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
Thomas Paine wrote this 1776 pamphlet urging the colonies to break from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
In 1781, British General Cornwallis surrendered at this battle in Virginia, leading to American independence.
What is Yorktown?
Daniel Shays led indebted veterans in this uprising, which showed the Articles were too weak.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
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Known as the “Father of the Constitution,” he became the 4th President.
Who is James Madison?