Colonies
There were this many original colonies.
What is 13?
These people sailed to America on the Mayflower in 1620.
Who were the Pilgrims?
This product was dumped into the Boston Harbor.
What is tea?
This was the first permanent English settlement in America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This explorer sailed in 1492 and reached the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The colonies were ruled by this country before they became independent.
What is Great Britain?
This man made a famous midnight ride to warn that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
This massacre took place in this city in 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This colony was started by Pilgrims in 1620.
What is Plymouth Colony?
The “New World” is another name for these continents.
What are North America and South America?
The colonies were divided into three regions: New England, Middle, and this region.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This document declared that the colonies were free from Britain in 1776.
This document declared that the colonies were free from Britain in 1776.
Colonists travelled to the New World on these.
What is by boat?
This cash crop helped Jamestown make money.
What is tobacco?
They lived in the New World before European explorers arrived.
Who are Native Americans?
This 1773 event was when colonists threw tea into the harbor to protest taxes.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
He was the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This country won the French and Indian War.
What is Great Britain?
This Native American woman helped the Jamestown settlers survive.
Who is Pocahontas?
Explorers from this country were some of the first to explore parts of the New World.
What is Spain?
These people objected to British rule because of new laws and taxes.
What are colonists?
This war was fought between the American colonies and Great Britain from 1775 to 1783.
What is the American Revolutionary War?
This country fought with the British over the Ohio River Valley.
What is France?
This country wrote the the Proclamation of 1763 which stated that colonists could not travel across the Appalachian Mountains.
What is Great Britain?
This European country sent the explorer John Cabot to look for new lands in North America.
What is England?