Who is credited with "discovering" the New World
What is Christopher Columbus
The first colonies were created by three major powers one of which was Britain what was the first colonies they established?
What is Jamestown
What was George Washington's role during the revolutionary war?
What is War General
Which group of people had consistent conflict with settlers trying to move WEST
What is Native Americans
What were the profitable cash crops from the southern colonies?
What is tobacco, rice, indigo
To solve the debt acquired from the French and Indian War- Britain removed their policy of salutary neglect and started imposing what on the colonists'?
What are Taxes in the American colonies
Who was commonly referred to as writing the Declaration of Independance
What is Thomas Jefferson
What are the two groups of people who will become involuntary minorities in America?
Who are Natives and African Americans
What countries were the main countries to conquer the new world?
Who are Spain, France, and Britain
What was an example of organized rebellion of imposed taxes?
What is the Boston Tea Party or Boycotting goods or smuggling
King George III was the king that caused the American Revolution, how long did it take for him to figure out they revolted?
What is 4 to 6 weeks
What was the transport of African Slaves called and Where did it occur?
What is the middle passage during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade/ Triangular Trade
What were the profitable exports from the New England colonies?
What was lumber, fishing and whaling
What was the first form of self-governance in the colonies?
What is the Virginia House of Burgess
The Albany Plan of Union was derived from the work of
Who is Ben Franklin
What were the original 13 colonies called, and why were they not as desirable as the rest of North America?
What is the "dregs" of the new world, and they didn't have gold or silver like the Spanish conquered lands
What physical boundary did the French and Indian War lead to between the colonies and the Natives?
What is the Proclamation line of 1863 that aligned with the Appalachian mountains
What two documents demonstrated the way to limit government/ monarchs?
What is the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights
What is the name for Sons of Liberty that would have been given to them had we lost the Revolutionary War to the British?
Insolent Young Boys or Domestic Terrorists