The First Americans
These types of trees were used by the Native American tribes from the Northwest United States to build canoes and even their own homes!
What is the redwood (tree)?
Representatives from the matching country, known by this name, employed Henry Hudson on his first voyage to discover a passage to China.
Who are the Dutch?
To escape religious persecution [being told they could not celebrate their faith the way they wanted], these people fled from England to start a new colony in Virginia (in America).
Who are the Pilgrims?
Both the British and French sought to control this area, sparking the beginnings of the French and Indian War; France struck first by founding forts there.
What is the Ohio Valley?
Due to unfair taxation, the 13 American colonies fought, and later declared independence from, these people of a mother country that considered the colonies part of its empire.
What are the British?
The Great Basin tribes lived in the area between the Pacific Ocean and this landform.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The chilled, starving, and frustrated crew of Hudson's second trip to find a Northwest Passage eventually did this action, leaving Hudson, his child, and sailors loyal to Henry behind in a small boat.
What is mutiny?
This holiday was inspired by a special meal the Pilgrims held to celebrate a bountiful harvest.
What is Thanksgiving?
This major general and future president led a colonial army representing Great Britain to take France's forts along the Ohio Valley - sadly for him, the colonists lost the battle!
Who is [George] Washington?
Colonists involved in this well-known chapter of history protested against British tea taxes by dressing as Native Americans, destroying shipments of tea, and dumping them into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The Native American tribes classified in the Southeast region were also known by this nickname, a reference to how they buried their dead in hilly structures shaped like animals.
Who are the mound builders?
On his way to the bay that bears his namesake, Henry Hudson went through this body of water (also named after the explorer!) in the northeastern coast of Canada.
What is the Hudson Strait?
The colony in Massachusetts in which the Pilgrims settled bore this name.
What is Plymouth?
To end British colonization of their lands, this group of early tribal peoples joined the French on that side of the Seven Years War.
Who are [the] Native Americans (/American tribes)?
This group was part of the British government and made laws that the American colonies had to follow.
What is Parliament?
Between this area and the Rocky Mountains was where tribes of the Great Plains Native American groups were settled.
What is the Mississippi River?
Rulers of the greatest European governments attempted to make their empires bigger by starting these settlements in North America.
What are colonies?
This Native American taught the Pilgrims the necessary skills to survive in America; those include planting corn, catching fish, and hunting deer.
Who is Squanto?
This title is the other name given to the conflict known as the French and Indian War.
What is the Seven Years War?
Americans showed their dissatisfaction to the British king (not liking that person) protested in this way by refusing to buy, or throwing away, goods and services from a merchant/brand.
What is boycott?
Native American tribes of this group in the Eastern Woodlands region formed and sent representatives to partake in the League of Five Nations every year.
Who are the Iroquois?
European countries hoped to discover a seafaring route through the Americas to reach Asia known by this name.
What is the Northwest Passage?
The Pilgrims signed this document to create their own early form of government and set of rules for living in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This agreement signed by England and France in 1763, ended the French and Indian War. It also gifted England with claims to most of France's territories (land covering the Atlantic coastline, parts of Canada, Florida, and the Ohio Valley).
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Taxes were placed on bought goods like tea, lead, glass, paint, and paper from these acts passed by the British government.
What are the Townshend Acts?