Early Beginnings
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
The labor of these individuals was contracted for 5-7 years, often in exchange for passage to America.
What are indentured servants?
These conflicts are often known as the "shot heard 'round the world" as they marked the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
What were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
In the Constitution, Native Americans were designated as independent nations to be negotiated with via this process.
What is the "treaty system"?
This Native American confederacy interacted with early Jamestown settlers.
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
Wealthy landowners in the Southern Colonies used this system to accumulate wealth through cash crops.
What is the plantation system?
This document, completed in July 1776, declared the colonies’ independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This person was named the first Secretary of the Treasury under George Washington.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
The settlers of Jamestown were funded by this company of merchants and aristocrats.
What is the Virginia Company?
These religious reformers, also known as Puritan Separatists, founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620.
Who were the Pilgrims?
This gathering of delegates from all 13 colonies in May 1775 established the Continental Army.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
In the U.S., this stretch of time is typically referred to as the "Antebellum."
What historical period comes between the War of 1812 and the American Civil War?
Settler colonialism involves this key feature, displacing Indigenous peoples to occupy land.
What is physical occupation?
This epidemic, caused by European diseases, devastated indigenous, Northeastern populations from 1616 to 1619.
What was the Great Dying?
This declaration issued by King George III in 1763 forbade colonists from moving westward.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
Citizens in the early United States were defined by being either born in the U.S. or by completing this process.
What is naturalization?
In 1619, this assembly was established in Jamestown, later known as the House of Burgesses.
What is the General Assembly?
This Algonquian-speaking confederation was once comprised of over 60 Native nations and is associated with the "First Thanksgiving."
Who are the Wampanoag?
The Treaty of Paris in 1783 officially ended the war and recognized this country’s independence.
What is the United States?
What is New Hampshire?