The name given to Spanish explorers that came to the America's in search of the three R's.
What are Conquistadores?
100
Under Britains Mercantilist policy, the were expected to supply Great Britain with this.
What are raw materials?
100
In September of 1774 delegates from twelve of the colonies sent representatives to Philadelphia to discuss a response to the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
100
The "father" of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
100
The name of Thomas Jefferson's home.
What is Monticello?
200
Tenochtitlan was the capital city of this empire which was eliminated due the empirical aspirations of the Spanish empire during the 1500's.
What is the Aztec Empire?
200
British regulations designed to protect British shipping from competition.
What are The Navigation Acts?
200
On the evening of December 16, 1773, Bostonians proceeded to throw cargo from British ships into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
They "interpret" the laws.
What is The Judicial Branch?
200
The French military dictator that sold the Louisiana territory to The United States for 15 million dollars.
Who is Napolean Bonaparte?
300
The first agreement for self government in America.
What is The Mayflower Compact?
300
The federation of tribes occupying northern New York.
What is the League of Five Nations or the Iroquois Confederacy?
300
He wrote "Common Sense."
Who is Thomas Paine?
300
They were people against the ratification of the Constitution.
Who are anti-federalists?
300
The home of George Washington.
What is Mount Vernon?
400
This court case became the basis for the principle of freedom of the press in America in which a jury ruled that newspapers could criticize government as long as they were true.
What is the Zenger case?
400
England had many colonies in North America, in 1700, this was considered the largest.
What is Virginia?
400
This battle was the "turning point" of the war.
What is The Battle of Saratoga?
400
The sharing of power between both the state and national governments.
What is federalism?
400
He defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
500
The term used to describe someone of mixed race in Latin America of Native American and Spanish heritage.
What is a Mestizo?
500
North Carolina and South Caronlina were different in this way in terms of farming.
What is North had small farms and South had plantations?
500
African-American killed in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
500
The nation's first capital city under the Articles of Confederation.
What is New York City?
500
The founder and leader of the Whig Party and also known as the "Great Compromiser."