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100
These are the four countries that had colonies in North America.

Who are the French, the Dutch, the English, and the Spanish.

100

What is the name of the rebellion that took place in Jamestown, VA?

What is Bacon's Rebellion?

100

This is the name of the island that the Lenape people sold to the dutch to create "New Amsterdam".

What is Manahatta? (Sound familiar?)

100

Out of the following three: Southern Colonies, Middle Colonies, or New England, which area had extreme religious intolerance.

What is New England?

100

This is the reason Columbus referred to the native peoples he met as "Indians."

What is he had been searching for a way to India?

200

Who originally controlled New York and named "New Amsterdam"

Who are the Dutch?

200

What are some things the Spanish did that damaged their relations with the Natives?f

 What is enslavement, forced conversion to Christianity, war, taking of gold and silver, DISEASE.

200

This is the name of the land bridge between Asia and America that allowed humans to come to the Americas. 

What is Beringia, or the Bering Straight

200

Out of the following three: Southern Colonies, Middle Colonies, or New England, which were called the "breadbasket", because they were good for growing wheat.

What are the Middle Colonies?

200

These are two reasons people might rebel.

Any of the following:

- unfair taxes

- lack of rights

- violent oppression

- Disagreement over issues

300

He created a rebellion in Jamestown, Virginia.

Who is Bacon?

300

The trade between England, Africa, and the US that resulted in natural resources from US sent to England, guns and other products sent to Africa, and slaves sent from Africa to the US. (Hint - its named for a shape)

What is Triangle Trade?

300

This part of the American colonies had rich soil that was good for planting, and warm weather that supported a long growing season. 

What is the South?

300

This is the name for the spread of goods from the Americas to other parts of the world, and vice versa. HINT: It's named after the man we celebrate as being the first European to come to the Americas

What is the Colombian Exchange
300

This is the name of the English settlement who came to New England (hint - these were the Pilgrims)

What is the Plymouth colony?

400

These two colonizers had relatively positive relationship with the native population.

Who are the Dutch and the French?

400

Why did Bacon want to rebel?

Any of the following: 

- He wanted to attack the natives and he was annoyed the government had made deals with them.

- He wanted power.

- He objected to taxes

400

This was the first settlement of English in the United States. (hint, it disappeared) 

The Roanoke Colony

400

Out of the following three: Southern Colonies, Middle Colonies, or New England, which had Mercantilism?

What are the Middle Colonies?

500

What was the main reason the English went to the Jamestown Colony in Virginia

To make money with silver and gold mining (there was none to mine). 

500

What was the main reason the Pilgrims went to the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts?

To have religious freedom. 

500

This is the second (first successful) English settelement in the United States. 

What is Jamestown, VA?

500

What is "Mercantilism"?

This word means a colonial system where the colony sends raw natural resources (wood, cotton, tobacco, iron ore) to its 'mother country', and the mother country processes these goods and sells them back to the colony at a higher price as cloth, furniture, guns, etc. **VERY LITTLE IS ACTUALLY MADE IN THE COLONY**