Creating a New World
Columbus thought that he was sailing to this country when he landed in the Caribbean.
What is India?
This was the cash crop that helped Virginia become a successful colony.
What is tobacco?
Pennsylvania was created by this friendly group of hat-wearing Englishmen.
Who are the Quakers?
The event that produced the "first martyrs of the Revolution."
What is the Boston Massacre?
This was the first form of government in the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This was the first country that created permanent colonies in the New World.
What is Spain?
This was the location of the first English settlement in the New World.
What is Roanoke?
The economic term used to describe the relationship between Great Britain and her colonies.
What is mercantalism?
He was a founder of the Sons of Liberty and cousin to a future president.
Who was Samuel Adams?
This proposed Constitutional plan included a bicameral legislature that voted for the executive branch.
What is the Virginia Plan?
These were the farms that the Spanish ran under the Encomienda system.
What are haciendas?
Who are the Puritans?
This was the American religious response to the Enlightenment
What is the Great Awakening?
This best-selling pamphlet encouraged colonists to rethink their dependence on Great Britian.
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
This proposed Constitutional plan one legislative house based where each state has the same amount of votes.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This treaty separated the Western World between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This became the first written form of self-government in the Americas.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The war that resulted in France and Spain losing most of their colonies in North America.
What is the French & Indian War?
This battle was a turning point in the Revolution because it resulted in the French publicly supporting the colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This compromise ended the debate about how enslaved people would count towards a state's population.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
This was the name of the government set up by the Spanish in the New World.
What is the Council of the Indies?
This colony was created by Cecilius Calvert for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This law prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This act led to the quartering of soldiers in private homes and the closing of the Boston Harbor.
The term that means a split in power between the federal and state government.
What is federalism?