Vocabulary
What is a young person who learns a skill from a more experienced person?
What is a Apprentice?
The British soldiers were put on a trial for murder in Boston, they were defended in court by BLANK a cousin of Samuel Adams
Who is John Adams?
Washington and his soldiers built BLANK on a meadow in what is now Southwestern Pennsylvania.
What is Fort Necessity?
These small battles were a start of a long war between Britain and French. In the 13 colonies, the war was called the BLANK war because British forces fought against the French and their American Indian allies.
What is the French and Indian war?
BLANK needed to live in a city, because he wanted to be a printer, and all printing businesses we only found in cities.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
What is a skilled worker such as a rope maker, or blacksmith, or carpenter that does things by hand called?
What is a Artisan?
The colony of Massachusetts was put under control of a British general named BLANK
Who is Thomas Gage?
They crossed the Application Mountains and entered the BLANK a region of fertile land and thick forests.
What is Ohio River Valley?
A Wampanoag leader named Meta com, son of Chief Massasoit, led several Native American groups into battle against the English settlers. Metacom's goals were to force the English out of New England. The English called Meta com "king Phillip" and this war became known as the BLANK war.
What is King Phillip's War?
Many New England towns were BLANK, meaning they relied on themselves for most of what they needed.
What is self-sufficient?
What is a trading route that is in the shape of a triangle called?
What is the Triangular Trading Route?
One man who represented Virginia at the meeting was BLANK. BLANK was a wealthy farmer and a member of Virginia House of Burgesses.
Who is George Washington?
The French were already there building BLANK Washington decided to try to capture this French fort.
What is Fort Duquesne?
By the end of the day about 50 patriots had been killed and about 40 had been wounded. The BLANK, a war Americans fought for independence, had begun.
What is the American Revelation War?
BLANK told the story in his life in a book that was published in 1798.
Who is Venture Smith?
Colonists who opposed British rule were know as the BLANK?
Who are the Patriots?
One of the leaders of the Great Awakening, BLANK, traveled throughout the colonies collecting money to build an orphanage in Georgia.
Who is George Whitefield?
In 1763 Jews in BLANK, Rhode Island built what today is the oldest synagogue in the United States.
What is Newport?
On the night of June 16, a patriot colonel named William Prescott led about 1,200 men up the hills of Charlestown these men could bring up cannons a fire them town on the British in Boston. Their goal was to force British to leave Boston. This was known as the battle of BLANK.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
All 13 colonies lay between the BLANK in the East and the Application Mountains in the West.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Some militia groups called themselves the BLANK because they could be ready in a minute's notice to fight for their colony
What are the Minutemen?
In 1734 BLANK was thrown in New York City jail for printing his political opinions in The New York Weekly Journal.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
The colonies can be divided into three regions the BLANK, the BLANK, and the BLANK.
What are the New England colonies, the Middle colonies, and the Southern colonies?
The Americans, designed a fort near the town of Saratoga. Here, The Americans planned to stop the British advance. The two armies clashed in late September and early October. This fighting was know as the BLANK.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
In the bloody BLANK, a group of enslaved people fought with slave owners near the Stono River in South Carolina in 1739.
What is the Stono Rebellion?