Exploration & Early Contact
This Italian explorer, sailing for Spain in 1492, is traditionally credited with “discovering” the New World (for Europeans).
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This region of the 13 colonies was known for cold winters, shipbuilding, and fishing.
What is New England?
Most people in the colonies did this type of work to make a living.
What is farming (or agriculture)?
This war (1754‑1763) was fought between Britain and France (with various Native American allies) over control of North America.
What is the French and Indian War?
This slogan became a colonial rallying cry.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
Many European countries explored the Americas in search of these three things.
What is gold, glory, and god?
This colonial region was known for large plantations, cash crops like tobacco and rice, and an economy dependent on slave labor.
What is the Southern Colonies?
In 1692, fear, religion, and false accusations led to trials and executions in this Massachusetts town.
What is Salem?
This treaty, signed in 1763, ended the French & Indian War and gave Britain control of Canada and French lands east of the Mississippi.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
In 1773, colonists in Boston dumped tea into the harbor as protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This term describes the transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Old World and the New World after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This colonial region had a more diverse economy, including farming, trade, and small industry, and more religious and ethnic diversity.
What is the Middle Colonies?
In colonial families, this group was expected to cook, make clothes, and take care of the home.
Who are women (or colonial women)?
After the war, Britain imposed this law (1763) forbidding colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
In 1770, British soldiers killed 5 colonists in Boston, an event later used as colonial propaganda.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This Spanish settlement in Florida, founded in 1565, is the oldest continuously inhabited European-founded city in the continental U.S.
What is St. Augustine?
In many New England towns, colonists gathered here to vote and talk about local issues.
What is town hall?
Colonial schools mainly taught boys how to read so they could read this book.
What is the Bible?
To help pay war debts, Britain passed this 1765 act requiring colonists to purchase stamps for legal documents, newspapers, etc.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1774 set of laws closed Boston’s port and allowed British soldiers to be housed in private homes.
What are the Intolerable Acts (or Coercive Acts)?
This European power established a fur trade empire in the interior of North America by building strong alliances with Native American tribes.
What is France?
This system in the Southern colonies used enslaved people to grow crops like tobacco and rice on large farms.
What is the plantation system?
This religious group settled in Massachusetts Bay Colony to escape persecution in England and aimed to build a "city upon a hill" based on strict religious beliefs and moral codes.
Who are the Puritans?
After the French and Indian War, many colonists were upset because Britain started passing new laws and taxes. Why did Britain do this?
To pay off war debt.
This 1775 battle in Massachusetts was the first military engagements between colonial militia and British troops.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?