13 Colonies
First Permanent English Settlement in North America
In what year?
What is Jamestown
When is 1607
The American colonists ultimately chose to break away from the British colonies because they didn't want to pay these
What are taxes
This war happened before the American Revolution between powers over colonial territory in the Americas.
(The name can be confusing)
What is the French and Indian War
What is Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
This group, nations, and peoples lost the most any and every time the US has/had expanded
What are Native Americans, Indigenous Americans, First Nations People, etc.
People who offered 7-10 years of their service in exchange for their ticket from Europe to the American colonies
People who were stolen from their home continent and forced to work for their entire life in the American colonies
What are Indentured Servants
What are Enslaved Africans
This document officially announced the US as an independent nation
What is the Declaration of Independence
This battle is often seen as the beginning of the American Revolution, both small towns are outside boston
What is Lexington and Concord
What are the Articles of Confederation
This ideology argues that Americans were chosen by god to own all territory from east to west coast. It views this as something that was inevitable
What is Manifest Destiny
These are the three major reasons that European explorers went to the Americas
(the three G's)
God, Gold, Guns
John Locke was an Enlightenment thinker he argued that humans had natural rights. Which he said were (3 things)
What is Life, Liberty, Property
This man was chosen to be the leader of the Continental Army
Who is George Washington
This document sets up the government for the United States of America
What is the Constitution
When the 5 Civilized Tribes were forcibly relocated and marched from their ancestral homes to to modern day Oklahoma
What is the Trail of Tears
The first Enslaved Africans were brought to the American colonies in this year
What is 1619
Thomas Paine wrote a book that inspired the American Revolution is appealed to the "common" man, part of the titles shares that name
What is Common Sense
This battle is the last major battle of the Revolutionary War
What is Yorktown
This man is the first famous Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Who is John Marshall
This man was president and was a proponent of the Trail of Tears, he is nicknamed the "Common Man"
Andrew Jackson
People went to the N England colonies for
People went to the Middle colonies for
People went to the Southern colonies for
What is religious freedom
What is religious freedom and economic opportunity
What is economic opportunity
At the ___________ _______________. American colonists were shot by redcoats
At the ___________ ____ ____________. American colonists dumped 1000s of lbs of tea into the harbor, in protest
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
This famous American and founding father, convinced the French to help the 13 colonies fight the British during the Revolutionary War
Who is Ben Franklin
The first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution are called the ______ of _________
What is the Bill of Rights
This state was originally apart of the Spanish Empire, then independent, then apart of the USA
What is Texas