Unit 1: The Exploration and Settlement of North America
What is the name of the first PERMANENT British settlement in North America?
Jamestown
What is the name of the colony group known for its rich farmland and large population of slaves?
Southern Colonies
______________ claimed the Mississippi River and all waterways connected to it for France.
La Salle
At the beginning of the French and Indian War, when George Washington was a young general, he made a huge mistake at Fort ____________ when he built the fort on low-ground, making it easy for the French to attack.
Necessity
_____________________ was an African American woman who earned her freedom through trials, called the Freedom Trials.
Elizabeth Freeman
What was the name of the imaginary waterway through American that explorers thought would be a shortcut to Asia?
The Northwest Passage
Which colony was founded as a buffer zone between Spanish owned Florida and the prosperous English colony of South Carolina? (Hint: it was also founded as a place for prisoners!)
Georgia
What are the names of the two brothers who made a settlement in Louisiana for France? (Hint: the first fort didn't work out for them because of the sandy soil in present day Biloxi!)
Bienville and Iberville
British General _______________ ignored the warnings of the colonists and was overtaken and killed by the French.
Braddock
The _____________________ was the first governing document of the United States and illuminated the idea of a limited government.
Articles of Confederation
What is the name of the explorer for whom various waterways in New York and Canada are named for, who was also thrown off of his ship due to a mutiny?
Henry Hudson
The _______________ was the leg of the slave trade where the enslaved were brought across the Atlantic Ocean into the New World.
Middle Passage
New Orleans is called _________________ because it sits on a bend in the Mississippi River.
The Crescent City
____________________ was an African American woman and former slave who published poems and writings encouraging African Americans to join the war on the side of the colonists.
Phyllis Wheatley
What is the name of the area of land added to the United States in 1789? (Hint: This eventually added 5 new states!)
The Northwest Territory
What are the names of the two religious groups who escaped from Europe due to religious persecution and both landed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Pilgrims and Puritans
__________________ was an enslaved man who eventually bought his freedom and wrote an autobiography that highlights the horrors of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Olaudah Equiano
Settlers from ____________ were very successful in Louisiana and contributed to the growth of New Orleans.
Germany
The ______________________ states that the British colonists were not allowed to settle West of the Appalachian Mountains. (Hint: This really ticked off the colonists!)
Proclamation of 1763
__________________ was nicknamed "The Father of the Constitution."
James Madison
What is the name of the colony where many settlers wanted to go due to the idea of religious freedom, the plentifulness of jobs, and the absence of issues with Native Americans?
Pennsylvania
Name one way in which slaves resisted slavery.
Broke tools, faked sickness, worked slowly, rebelled
When the Spanish took control of Louisiana, it was in unrest under the rule of Governor Ulloa, so King Charles III of Spain sent _________________ to reorganize and strengthen Louisiana.
General Alejandro O'Reilly
The _______________ was a group of Patriots who believed that the colonies should be free from the British.
Sons of Liberty
The new Constitution was a document of _______________.
compromises