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Early Settlement
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100
Jamestown
What is the name of the settlement the colonists first settled in?
100
Red clay
What is the soil like in the Southern Colonies?
100
The French were in search of this.
Who was in search of fur?
100
The colonists wanted freedom from Britain.
What is the reason for the Revolutionary War?
100
"We the people..." begins this part of the Constitution.
What is the beginning of The Preamble?
200
This crop helped the colonies to grow.
What is the importance of tobacco?
200
This act put a tax on any document, newspaper, or pamphlet.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
This country was searching for gold.
What were the Spanish searching for?
200
Colonists and Iroquios vs. French and Huron
Who fought in the French and Indian War?
200
The colonists wrote this document when they first arrived in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
300
This was the earliest form of self government
What is a town meeting?
300
These people discovered the Mississippi River.
Who are Marquette and Joliet?
300
The Louisiana Territory was given to this Country after the French and Indian War.
Why was Spain given the Louisiana Territory?
300
The colonists fought against this group of people in King Philip's War.
Who are the Native Americans?
300
This document was written in order to listen reasons the colonists wanted to separate from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
This colony is where the Roman Catholics settled
What is Maryland?
400
The Mississippi River was important for this reason.
What was important for trade in the Colonies?
400
This was imported from Africa in the Triangular Trade.
What are slaves?
400
This event showed the colonists protesting their right of "taxation without representation"
What is The Boston Tea Party?
400
These rights give freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What are unalienable rights?
500
The Proclamation of 1763 made this landform a boundary line for where the colonists could settle
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
500
This country aided the colonists in winning the Revolutionary War.
Who are the French?
500
This battle ended the Revolutionary War.
What is Yorktown?
500
This contract gave the states too much power, which didn't make the smaller states, like New Jersey, happy.
What are The Articles of Confederation?