Early Exploration
The 3 G's
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
Document signed by all of the pilgrims; one of the first examples of representative government in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The leader of the Continental Army during the revolution.
Who is George Washington?
States needed to ratify the Constitution.
Nine
The act of staying away from having allies or enemies.
Neutrality
A huge exchange of plants, animals, people, technology, ideas, and disease.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The significance of 1607.
What is the founding of Jamestown?
British act that prevented Americans from colonizing beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The event in which the Articles of Confederation was written.
What is the First Continental Congress?
The third US president.
Thomas Jefferson
Nation who explored America, originally for wealth and to spread Christianity, but ended up finding a huge fur trade.
What is France?
The man who formed the colony of Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn?
Acts that were passed by Britain as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
What are The Intolerable Acts?
Rebellion caused by America taxing poor farmers, and the arresting them if they couldn't pay.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Rebellion in which the government taxed grain-based alcohol, angering farmers; was swiftly put down by Washington.
Whiskey Rebellion
Country whose motivation for exploration was the "3 G's"
What is Spain?
The message that was found scratched into a tree at the lost colony of Roanoke.
What is "Croatoan?"
Free African-American man who was shot in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
What is the President
a diplomatic incident between French and United States diplomats
XYZ Affair
Country from where many people came to America to avoid prosecution, ended up finding money through tobacco.
What is Great Britain?
A joint-stock company chartered by King James I in 1606 to colonize the eastern coast of North America.
What is Virginia Company?
British Army General who was forced to surrender after being captured during the Battle of Yorktown.
Who is General Cornwallis?
A group that favored that there shouldn't be a Bill of Rights.
The Federalists
Resolutions that argued that the states had the right and the duty to declare unconstitutional those acts of Congress that the Constitution did not authorize.
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions