The European Explorer who mistakenly found a new continent for European colonization
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This crash crop was considered "brown gold" as it helped the Virginia colonizers gain profits and survive
What is tobacco?
100
This proclamation did not allow colonists to settle west of the Applications
What is the proclamation of 1763?
100
The Government Branch in charge of interpreting the Constitution
What is the Judiciary Branch?
100
laws passed by President Adams which limited free speech and extended the citizenship process for newly arrived immigrants
What is the Alien and Sedition Acts?
200
The system that the Spanish Colonists placed which brutally exploited the Native Americans
What is the encomienda system?
200
Deeply religious settlers in New England who believed hard work for common goals
Who are Puritans?
200
The first battle between redcoats and minutemen
What is the battle of Lexington and Concord?
200
The first set of laws that we crafted during the Revolution but were considered ineffective in collecting taxes or raising an army
What are the Articles of Confederation?
200
U.S President who doubled the size of the U.S with the Louisiana Purchase
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
The first successful English settlement in the Americas
What is Jamestown?
300
This theory claims that a Nation has a strong economy when the value of exports is greater than the value of imports
What is mercantilism?
300
Author of the pamphlet Common Sense, arguing for Americans to fight for independence
Who is Thomas Paine?
300
The Anti-Federalists would not support the Constitution unless it had these 10 provisions
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
Napoleon was forced to abandon his hopes of establishing an American Empire after losing this colony
What is Haiti?
400
Former indentured servant who rallied English settlers on the frontier to fight against the aristocrats and Native Americans
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
400
A religious movement that caused colonists to abandon their Puritan and Anglican congregations
What is the Great Awakening?
400
Last battle of the Revolution in which General Cornwallis issued his surrender to Washington
What is the battle of Yorktown?
400
This agreement settled that States would have equal representation in the upper house and that population would have representation in the lower house of Congress
What is the Great Compromise?
400
Native American Nationalist who allied with the English during the War of 1812
Who is Tecumseh?
500
The last ruler of the Aztec Empire
Who is Montezuma?
500
The Native tribe that allied with the English during the Pequot War
Whose the Narragansett tribe?
500
French General who aided the United States the American Revolution
Who is Lafayette?
500
This State legislator was called to actually draft the Constitution
Who is Gouverneur Morris?
500
U.S Statesman who killed Alexander Hamilton in a Duel off the banks of Weehawken New Jersey