Native People & Early Contact
What crop formed the basis of many Native American agricultural societies?
What is maize (corn)?
In what year was Jamestown founded?
What is 1607?
This war was the first major conflict between English settlers and Native Americans in New England.
What is King Philip’s War?
This document was the first governing agreement for Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What Enlightenment idea emphasized reason and natural rights?
What is liberalism?
This group of Native Americans built complex societies in the American Southwest.
Who were the Pueblo?
This economic policy aimed to make colonies serve the mother country’s wealth.
What is mercantilism?
This war between France and Britain over North American territory ended in 1763.
What is the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)?
What was the first representative assembly in the American colonies?
What is the House of Burgesses?
What act required colonists to provide housing to British soldiers?
What is the Quartering Act?
What disease brought by Europeans devastated Native American populations?
What is smallpox?
This labor system promised land to settlers who paid for an immigrant's passage.
What is the headright system?
What treaty ended the French and Indian War?
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
Who wrote Common Sense, encouraging independence from Britain?
Who is Thomas Paine?
What 1776 document announced American independence?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Name one method Native Americans used to adapt to their environment.
What is irrigation (or controlled burns, nomadic buffalo hunting, etc.)?
What religious group founded Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Who were the Puritans?
Name one result of the French and Indian War that angered American colonists.
What is the Proclamation of 1763 (or increased taxes)?
What was the first constitution of the U.S., which gave most power to states?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
What rebellion showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
What is Shays' Rebellion?
What was the Columbian Exchange?
What is the exchange of goods, ideas, people, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds?
This rebellion by former indentured servants in Virginia highlighted class tensions.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This 1676 conflict involved frontier settlers rebelling against colonial Virginia’s government.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
What compromise at the Constitutional Convention settled the issue of slavery and representation?
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This event was a peaceful transition of power between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans in 1800.
What is the "Revolution of 1800"?