What do we call a first hand
account?
Primary source
What was the name for
goods traded from the
colonies to Britain as part of
the triangular trade?
Raw materials
What was traded from the
colonies to Africa as part of
the triangular trade?
Guns, gunpowder, rum,
cloth, tools
Who founded Rhode Island
for religious freedom?
Roger Williams
Is a primary or secondary
source more reliable?
primary
What did Britain gain after
the Treaty of Paris (1763) at
the end of the French and
Indian War?
They gained France’s land
in North America including
Canada.
What was the colonists
reaction to the Townshend
Acts?
They boycotted, harassed tax
officials, made their own
goods such as liberty tea
Physical Regions Map
Physical Regions Map
A – Pacific Coast Region
B - Rocky Mountain Region
C- Interior Plains
D – Appalachian Mountain Region
E – Coastal Plains Region
What was Benjamin
Franklin’s plan to make a
government for the 13
colonies during the French
and Indian War called?
Albany Plan of Union
Is a journal a primary or
secondary source?
primary
What was the name for
goods traded from Britain to
the colonies as part of the
triangular trade?
Manufactured goods
Name 3 ways colonists
protested against British
actions.
Petitions (Olive Branch
Petition, riots, boycotts, Sons
of Liberty, hangings in effigy,
tarring and feathering)
What act closed the port of
Boston, limited town
meetings to 1 a year in
Massachusetts and passed a
new Quartering Act?
Intolerable Acts (1774)
Is a textbook a primary or
secondary source?
secondary
What was the phrase
colonists said to protest the
fact that no colonists were a
member of Parliament?
“No taxation without
representation!”
What do we call the average
weather over a period of 20 30 years for a given location?
climate
What do we call what it looks
like outside right now? It
could be snowing or sunny.
weather
What do we call the people
who find information for
historians?
Social scientists
What are the main clues
archaeologists study?
artifacts
What colony was founded as
a home for debtors?
Georgia
How did the first people get
to the Americas?
Across a land bridge
during the last ice age
What 2 areas did the land
bridge connect during the
last ice age?
Siberia (Asia) to Alaska
What do we call areas that
look the same?
Physical regions
What Son of Liberty in
Boston warned the
minutemen that the British
were coming to Lexington
and Concord?
Paul Revere
What was the name for the
series of acts passed in the
1660’s by England to control
colonial trade?
Navigation Acts
What did the Iroquois call
themselves?
Haudenosaunee
(People of the Longhouse)
British soldiers were sent to
protect the frontier after the
Proclamation of 1763.
Where did they stay?
In coastal cities
What do we call the total way
of life of a group of people?
culture
Give one example of how the
Iroquois used their
environment.
•Longhouses from the forests
•Animals from the forests
•Water for transportation
•Fertile soil for farming
What was the name given
the 5 Iroquois tribes formed
by Hiawatha?
Iroquois Confederacy
What is a sachem
Iroquois name for chief
What were a group of related
Iroquois tribes called?
clan
What was the main job of
Iroquois women?
•Selected Iroquois chiefs
•In charge of Iroquois
villages
How did the Iroquois tell
time?
Nature and the seasons
What was the name for the
waterway through or around
North America that many
early explorers were looking
for? (it didn’t exist)
Northwest Passage
What colony did the Pilgrims
settle for religious freedom?
Massachusetts
Who was the persuasive
speaker from Virginia during
the time period before the
Revolutionary War?
Patrick Henry
What European country
controlled Florida, Mexico,
and Central America?
Spain
What European country
controlled Canada and the
St. Lawrence River Valley?
France
What European country
originally controlled New York
state?
The Netherlands (the
Dutch)
What was the biggest area of
conflict between white
settlers and Native
Americans?
land
A - Missouri River
B - Mississippi River
C - Ohio River
D - St. Lawrence River
E - Rio Grande River
What was the exchange of
goods and ideas between the
New World and Old World
called?
Columbian Exchange
What was the biggest
negative of the Columbian
Exchange?
Diseases which killed many
Native Americans.
What were laws called which
were designed to control the
behavior of slaves?
Slave codes
What religious group came to
the Massachusetts Bay
Colony in 1620 searching for
religious freedom?
Pilgrims
What religious group
controlled the church and
government of
Massachusetts Bay early in
the colony’s history?
Puritans
What was the religious group
in Pennsylvania called that
believed that all people were
equal in God’s eyes?
Quakers
What was the first permanent
English colony in North
America called?
Jamestown (1607)
What was the name for the
slave trip from Africa to the
colonies?
Middle passage
What term describes Britain’s
practice of trying to get rich
by increasing its gold supply
and trade at the expense of
the colonies?
mercantilism
What was the document called
that was signed by the Pilgrim’s
in 1620 guaranteeing
representative government for
Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Mayflower Compact
What term described the
colonial protest method
where colonists refused to
buy British goods?
boycott
What is it called when people
are looked down upon
because they belong to a
different race?
racism
What is another name for a
lawmaking body or
assembly?
legislature
New England farmers grew
just enough to feed their
family. What is the name for
this type of farming?
subsistence
What were people called who
agreed to work 4-7 years in
exchange for their trip to the
colonies being paid for?
Indentured servants
What two colonial regions
grew cash crops?
Middle and Southern
What was the poor area next
to the Appalachian
Mountains called?
backcountry
• New
England
Colonies
• Middle
Colonies
• Southern
Colonies
What was it called when a
child learned a craft from a
master craftsman?
apprentice
What colonial region grew
rice, indigo and tobacco?
Southern
What was traded from Africa
to the West Indies in the
triangular trade?
slaves
What colonial region grew
wheat, barley and rye?
Middle Colonies
What battle was famous for
the “Shot heard ‘round the
world.”
Lexington and Concord
What colonial region was
known as the breadbasket
colonies?
Middle
What were the 3 reasons for
Spanish exploration and
settlement in the New World?
God, gold, and glory
What colonial region had
many small villages and
small farms?
New England
What colonial region was all
spread out with few cities
and very large farms?
Southern
What colonial region
contained the city of Boston?
New England
What colonial region
contained the city of Charles
Town?
Southern
What colonial region
contained the cities of New
York and Philadelphia?
Middle
What colonial region was
home to plantations?
Southern
What term means the study
of the land, plants and
animals of a region?
geography
What was the area called in
the Southern Colonies where
the rich ruling class lived?
Tidewater
What was the area in the
Southern Colonies next to
the Atlantic Ocean called?
tidewater
What colonial region was
educated in public schools?
New England
Who was the founder of
Georgia?
James Oglethorpe
Who did most of the farm
work on Southern
plantations?
Enslaved Africans
What was the trade route
between the colonies, Africa
and the West Indies called?
Triangular trade
What act made colonists
house and feed British
soldiers?
Quartering Act
(1767, 1774)
What act said that colonists
could not move west of the
Appalachian Mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
What was traded from the
West Indies to the colonies in
the triangular trade?
Sugar, rum, molasses,
slaves
Who was banished from
Massachusetts for
disagreeing with the Puritan
leaders of the colony?
Anne Hutchinson
What act lowered the price of
tea but cut merchants out of
the tea trade?
Tea Act (1773)
What term means a
willingness to allow others to
practice their beliefs?
toleration
What act taxed paper
documents such as wills,
diplomas and playing cards?
Stamp Act (1765)
Who founded Connecticut?
Thomas Hooker
Where did the French and
Indian War begin?
Ohio River Valley
What act punished Boston
for the Boston Tea Party?
Intolerable Acts (1774)
What is the name of crops
grown to sell for a profit?
Cash crops
What was the most
frequently used colonial
protest?
boycotts
What do we call a second
hand account?
Secondary source
Who was the Massachusetts
leader who defended the
British soldiers after the
Boston Massacre?
John Adams
Is an autobiography a
primary or secondary
source?
primary
Who was the fiery leader of
the Sons of Liberty in
Boston?
Sam Adams
What was the name of the
colonial troops at the battle of
Lexington and Concord?
minutemen
What was the group of men
called who organized against
the British before the
American Revolution?
Sons of Liberty
What group of Native
Americans lived in New York
before the Iroquois? They
were enemies of the
Iroquois.
Algonquins
A - Appalachian Mountains
B - Sierra Nevada
C- Rocky Mountains
D - Cascades
Is an encyclopedia a primary
or secondary source?
secondary
What colonial region had
more cities and large farms?
Middle
What was the first battle of
the Revolutionary War?
Lexington and Concord
Who was the King of
England during the period of
time before the American
Revolution?
King George III
Is a biography a primary or
secondary source?
secondary
What do we call goods that
are brought into a country?
imports
What colonial region was
educated in private schools?
Middle
What was the group of
women called who organized
against the British before the
American Revolution?
Daughters of Liberty
Who re-discovered the
Americas in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
What did the Iroquois live in?
longhouses
What do we call goods
traded out of a country?
exports
Who was the founder of
Pennsylvania?
William Penn
Is a diary a primary or
secondary source?
primary
What were the 5 original
Iroquois tribes?
Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga,
Oneida, Mohawk –
(SCOOM)
What colonial region was
educated by tutors?
Southern
What colonial region grew
corn, beans and squash?
New England
Is a home video a primary or
secondary source?
primary
D
A - Pacific Ocean
B - Gulf of Mexico
C - Atlantic Ocean
D – Great Lakes
D