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Hit the Seas!
Life in the Colonies
Acts and More
'Merica
YAAAAAAAAAAAS
100
This is the exchange of animals, crops, ideas and diseases between the New World and the Old World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
"The Lost Colony."
What is Roanoke?
100
A law that placed an increased fee on all printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
Commander of the Continental Army?
Who is George Washington?
100
A town saved by John Rolfe.
What is Jamestown?
200
This Italian explorer (sailing for Spain) sailed West in search of a sea route to India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
A self-sufficiency practice used in New England colonies to grow enough for yourself and family.
What is subsistence farming?
200
This forbade colonists to cross over the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
200
"life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness"
What are unalienable rights?
200
The document signed by the Pilgrims agreeing to laws and regulations via direct democracy.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
300
The Pope's solution for the conflicts between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas or Line of Demarcation?
300
This region included the Jamestown settlement as well as the Carolina's and Georgia.
What are the Southern Colonies?
300
Angry merchants dressed up as Native Americans to dump British goods into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
The first representative government in the U.S.A.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
300
This war was fought between England and France for supremacy in North America.
What is the French and Indian War?
400
The economic system based on gold and silver trading.
What is mercantilism?
400
The main cash crops cultivated by indentured servants.
What are tobacco, rice, and indigo?
400
Laws aimed to punish the colonists for the event that occurred at the Boston harbor.
What are the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?
400
The first constitution of the U.S.A.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
400
An street fight between colonists and redcoats that resulted in the deaths of 5 colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
500
The negative exchanges that occurred between the Old and New Worlds.
What is spread of diseases, decreased Native American populations, slavery/slave trade?
500
Important harbors of the "bread basket" colonies.
What are NYC and Philadelphia?
500
A law that drove colonial merchants out of business because of the cheap cost of imported molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
500
3 weaknesses of the first constitution of the U.S.A.
What is unable to: tax, coin money, make, carry out, or enforce laws?
500
Montesquieu's idea of dividing power into the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
What is "separation of powers"?