This theory explains the movements of the continents over millions of years.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
100
He was a Portuguese Prince who financed Portugal's voyages of exploration in the late 1400s.
Who was Henry the Navigator?
100
This religious denomination did not believe in war, believed that all people are equal, and invented the price tag.
Who were the Quakers?
100
This war, which lasted from 1756 to 1763 gave Britain control of Canada and the Ohio Valley, but drove it into debt.
What is Seven Years' War/French and Indian War?
100
The president is elected by this process.
What is the Electoral College?
200
This discipline studies the past through the things people leave behind.
What is archaeology?
200
This explorer sailed to the Cape of Good Hope and sailed back to Portugal in 1485.
Who was Bartholomeu Dias?
200
This crop made the colony of Virginia profitable.
What is tobacco?
200
This law passed by Parliament required a tax on all paper documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
These were a series of essays supported the ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
300
This civilization settled in southern Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula and was known for astronomy and mathematics.
Who were the Maya?
300
This was a network of roads that connected Europe and Asia.
What were the Silk Roads?
300
This city was the center of trade in New England.
What is Boston?
300
This battle in June of 1775 was a costly victory for the British, but a moral victory for the colonists because they fought off three attempts by the British to take a hill.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
300
This plan would have kept the Articles of Confederation, give new powers to Congress, such as the right to tax, and base representation by state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
This civilization dominated central Mexico until the 1500s.
Who were the Mexica or the Aztecs?
400
This was the first successful permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
400
This refers to a period in the 1700s when educated people looked to science, rather than religion to explain the world.
What is the Age of Enlightenment?
400
This was a turning point in the American Revolution because it was the first major American victory, leading to the Franco-American Alliance.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
400
This purposely created a weak central government that did not have the power to tax.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
500
This group lived in the central part of North America and followed the migratory patterns of big game, such as bison.
Who were the Great Plains Bison Hunters?
500
This was the chief colonial administrator in Spain's Latin American colonies?
What is the viceroy?
500
This area of the 13 Colonies was the most diverse, due to immigration from other parts of Europe.
What were the Middle Colonies?
500
This was a political essay written in January 1776 that laid out the argument for independence
What is Common Sense?
500
This revolt led by farmers in western Massachusetts prompted the Constitutional Convention.