Exploration
This man brought disease and captivity to the Taino people in 1492.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Plymouth was settled in this year in what is now Massachusetts.
What is 1620?
This founding father may have fired the first shot.
Who is George Washington?
This northern region of the colonies was known for fishing, shipbuilding and trade.
What is New England?
This is the system on sugar plantations in which the strongest enslaved workers did the hardest tasks while others handled lighter tasks, even the children and elderly did work.
What is the gang system?
This forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
These people sailed mostly for gold and spreading Christianity. They used military men called Conquistadors to settle in modern day Florida and Mexico.
Who were the Spanish?
These people came to America to avoid religious persecution.
Who were the Pilgrims (or Puritans)?
This was the cause of the French and Indian war?
What are land disputes in the Ohio River Valley?
These colonies were called the "breadbasket" because of the wheats, oats, and grains grown.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Work began on plantations at this time.
What is sunrise?
This bitter tax was the first tax levied against the colonies in 1764.
What is the Sugar Act?
These people sailed mostly for resources like fur. They settled modern day Canada and Louisiana.
Who were the French?
This was King Philip's real name.
What is Metacom or Metacomet?
This native group allied with the French.
Who are the Huron?
These colonies had huge cash crop farms called plantations and grew tobacco, rice, indigo, and cotton.
What are the Southern Colonies?
Work on plantations ended at this time.
What is sunset?
This 1765 tax on paper goods led to protests and boycotts.
What is the Stamp Act?
These people bought Manhattan from the local native tribe and created a business colony called New Amsterdam. They would give it to the English after ahile.
Who are the Dutch?
What caused King Philip's War?
What is the English taking Indian land?
This native confederacy allied with the English.
Who are the Iroquois?
These laborers worked for years to pay off debt and would receive land once freed.
Who are indentured servants?
This happened to enslaved workers that were absent from roll call.
What is being punished with lashes (whipped)?
Britain declared completed authority over her colonies with this 1766 Act.
What is the Declaratory Act?
This is the waterway ALL European nations were searching for.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This is the self-government document that was signed in Plymouth by the Pilgrims and the businessmen.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This result from the French and Indian War would cause the American Revolution.
What is massive English war debt?
These people were subjected to harsh, inhumane, lifetime, and permanent servitude to others in the colonies.
Who are enslaved people?
This is one way abolitionists, people that want to outlaw slavery, protested enslaved labor.
What is boycotting, not buying slave produced products?
This 1767 tax was on all imported goods, like glass, paint, lead, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?