Colonization
This European country founded the colony of Jamestown in 1607.
What is England
This State is known as The Panhandle State
What is Oklahoma?
This Italian explorer sailed for Spain and reached the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Who won the French and Indian War?
Who is Britain?
This 1765 law required colonists to pay taxes for all printed materials, sparking protests.
What is the Stamp Act?
These three colonial regions developed different economies, with shipbuilding and trade in the North, farming and commerce in the Middle, and plantation agriculture in the South.
What are the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
This is the largest U.S. state by land area.
What is Alaska?
This Founding Father was an inventor, diplomat, and printer who helped draft the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Ben Franklin?
The first shots of the American Revolution were fired at these two Massachusetts towns in 1775.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This Massachusetts patriot rode to warn of the British advance on Lexington and Concord.
Who is Paul Revere?
This Powhatan woman is known for helping the Jamestown settlers and for her association with John Smith.
Who is Pocahontas?
This state is known as the Empire State.
What is New York?
This Powhatan woman is known for helping Jamestown settlers survive.
Who is Pocahontas?
This 1770 event in Boston, though not a war, increased tensions between colonists and British soldiers.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This 1773 protest involved dumping British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
In the 1600s, these women were sent to Virginia in exchange for tobacco to help balance the colony’s gender ratio.
Who were tobacco brides?
This is the only U.S. state whose name ends in three consecutive vowels.
What is Hawaii?
This Massachusetts lawyer successfully defended British soldiers after the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
This early Revolutionary War battle was fought on a hill overlooking Boston Harbor in 1775.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Colonists claimed this phrase summarized their opposition to taxation without representation.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
This economic system encouraged European nations to establish colonies to gain raw materials and wealth. HINT: Raw materials--> Finished goods
What is mercantilism?
This state was originally founded as a refuge for debtors. HINT: Buffer between English & Spanish colonies
What is Georgia?
This leader founded Pennsylvania as a safe haven for Quakers.
Who is William Penn?
The surrender at this fort in 1754 marked the only time George Washington ever surrendered in battle.
What is Fort Necessity?
Samuel Adams was a famous leader of this group that organized protests and acts like the Boston Tea Party and the tarring and feathering of British tax collectors.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?