Historical Context
Geography and Economy
Government
Early Conflicts
100
What are places on the other side of Eurasia that the Europeans traded with for goods? (5)
What is China?
AND/OR
What is India?
100
What are the three colonial regions of British North America? (12)
What are New England, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies?
100
What kind of economic system did the British government force on the North American colonies? (17)
What is mercantilism?
100
What is a conflict between Britain and France over territory in North America? (14)
What is the French & Indian war?
200
Social reason why the Europeans needed to find new trade routes? (9)
What is conflict with Muslims in the Ottoman Empire/along the Silk Road?
200
What economic activity did New England focus on primarily? (2)
What are natural resources and/or manufacturing?
200
What is the British policy that mostly left the colonists alone in exchange for trade? (3)
What is Salutary Neglect?
200
What did the American colonists want that the French had? (13)
What is land west of the Appalachian Mountains and/or the Ohio River Valley?
300
Many different foods and tools show that Native American societies had very different ________? (15)
What is cultures and/or societies?
300
What economic activity did the Southern Colonies focus on primarily? Why? (18)
What is agriculture? What is fertile soil?
300
What kind of government developed in the colonies because of British policies? (10)
What is representative government?
300
What action did the British take after the conflict with France that angered the colonists (at least 3)? (20)
What are the Stamp Act, Tea Act, Townshend Acts, Quartering Act, and Intolerable Acts?
400
Economic reason Europeans needed to find new trade routes? (19)
What is trade with Muslims was very expensive due to taxes and/or dangerous trade routes?
400
What geographic feature made trade with Europe easier? (11)
What are waterways and/or natural harbors?
400
What are three examples of government developing in the colonies (Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut)? (16)
What are the House of Burgesses, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, and one of (a) Mayflower Compact OR (b) town hall meetings?
400
Described by the painting below, what is a conflict caused due to taxation where 5 American colonists died? (8) 
What is the Boston Massacre?
500
What was the impact on Native Americans of contact with Europeans? (1)
What is a severe reduction in population of the Native Americans due to war and disease?
OR
What is a forced migration to the west?
500
What kind of workers were primarily responsible for agricultural work in the colonies (particularly the Southern Colonies)? (6)
What are enslaved persons (from Africa)?
500
What is a border created after the conflict with the French that made the American colonists very angry? (7)
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
500
What conflict led to several crates of tea being dumped into the Atlantic Ocean to protest British laws? (4)
What is the Boston Tea Party?