Which explorer believed that Columbus had sailed to a continent unknown to Europeans? John Cabot
Amerigo Vespucci
Marco Polo
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
100
The leader of the Jamestown Colony?
Who is John Smith?
100
This civilization built large mounds of earth as burial sites and as places of worship.
Who are the Mound Builders?
100
Members of the Sons of Liberty dumped chests of tea into Boston Harbor protesting the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
The freedom to govern on one's own.
What is independence?
200
The first European to explore land in what is today the United States.
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
200
The New England Colonies were founded on-
What is religious freedom?
200
The early Americans were wandering people that became part of the great _____________ or movement of people, as they followed the ever moving animal herds.
What migration?
200
The law that allowed a British company to sell it's tea to colonists at a lower price than the price charged by the colonial companies.
What is the Tea Act?
200
An agreement between countries.
What is a treaty?
300
Landed on an island in the present day Bahamas that he believed were the East Indies.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
300
Received a charter for a new colony from the King of England in 1681. This charter said ____________ could set up a proprietary colony to the west of New Jersey.
Who is William Penn?
300
Known as the "mother civilization."
Who are the Olmecs?
300
Refusing to buy goods from the British.
What is a boycott?
300
A colony ruled directly by a monarch.
What is a royal colony?
400
Explorer who believed that Columbus sailed to a continent unknown to Europeans.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
Forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony for Rhode Island after questioning Puritan teachings.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
400
Featured a group of five tribes that worked together to keep peace among it's members.
What is the Iroquois League?
400
Series of laws aimed at punishing the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
400
A product brought in from another country.
What is an import?
500
The first European to sail to Africa's southern tip , the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
500
The author of Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
500
Most of the first Americans lived and hunted in____________.
What is small groups?
500
Taxes given to the colonists with no representation in Parliament.
What is taxation without representation?
500
The judging of a person accused of a crime by a jury of fellow citizens.