Colonizing America | ||
#1 | The strip of land where the first people were said to have crossed during the ice age. | Beringia |
#2 | Viking leader who led his people to the America about 1000 years ago. | Leif Ericsson |
#3 | John Smith helped found this colony | Jamestown |
#4 | The Proclamation of 1763 said colonists couldn't move West of these. | The Appalachian Mountains |
#5 | The main three countries to claim land in America. | France, Great Britain, Spain |
Causes of the Revolution | ||
#1 | This future president was a British hero during the French and Indian War. | George Washington |
#2 | The king of England during the American Revolution | George III |
#3 | This is what they called the French and Indian War in Europe | The 7 Years War |
#4 | This Act taxed almost all printed material in the colonies | The Stamp Act |
#5 | British Parliament passed this Act in reaction to the Boston Tea Party. | The Coercive or Intolerable Acts |
The Revolution | ||
#1 | "The shot heard round the world" occurred at this battle | Lexington and Concord |
#2 | Washington lead an attack on the Hessian's in this battle | Trenton |
#3 | The 2nd Continental Congress announced our intention to break away from Britain with this document. | The Declaration of Independence |
#4 | The last major battle of the Revolutionary War | Yorktown |
#5 | He was the French nobleman who was Washington's trusted aide during the war | Marquis de Lafayette |
Constitution | ||
#1 | The first 10 Amendments to our Constitution | The Bill of Rights |
#2 | He was the President of the Constitutional Convention | George Washington |
#3 | To change, alter, or improve something in our Constitution | Amend |
#4 | The name of the first written constitution of the United States | The Articles of Confederation |
#5 | The sharing of power between the national and state government | Federalism |
Washington and Adams Presidencies | ||
#1 | The 2nd president of the United States | John Adams |
#2 | The first Amendment protects these 5 freedoms | Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, Petition |
#3 | The first two political parties of the United States | Federalists and Democratic-Republicans (Anti-Federalists) |
#4 | The first Attorney General of the United States | Edmund Randolph |
#5 | He made a treaty with Spain that opened up the Mississippi River to the United States | Pinckney |
Final Question | |
The name of the Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War | Treaty of Paris, 1783 |