Texas History

Question 1

New England Colony that was home to the Pilgrims and Puritans. I have rocky soil and cold winters

Answer 1

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 2

New England Colony that was a home for outcasts and rebels such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

Answer 2

Rhode Island

Question 3

New England Colony that was founded by Thomas Hooker on less governor power

Answer 3

Connecticut

Question 4

code to remember the New England Colonies.

Answer 4

Connect to the Mass Rhode and buy a New Ham.

Question 5

Middle Colony that was a haven or safe place for the Catholics. My founder is Lord Baltimore.

Answer 5

Maryland

Question 6

Middle Colony that was taken from the Netherlands. I have a river called the Hudson inside it.

Answer 6

New York

Question 7

Middle Colony that was a safe haven for the Quakers. My founder is William Penn.

Answer 7

Pennsylvania

Question 8

I am known as the Breadbasket Colonies and my code is PNND.

Answer 8

Middle Colonies

Question 9

I am the code for the Southern Colonies.

Answer 9

GV Mary 2Cs (Give Mary Two C’s)

Question 10

I am a Southern Colony that is a debtor’s colony. My founder is James Oglethorpe.

Answer 10

Georgia

Question 11

I am a Southern Colony that is home to Jamestown. I am named after queen Elizabeth I.

Answer 11

Virginia

Question 12

I am a Southern Colony that has rich soil - perfect for plantation farming.

Answer 12

South Carolina

Question 13

I am the colony region that has the warmest temperatures and grows tobacco, indigo, and rice.

Answer 13

Southern Colonies

Question 14

I am a colony region that has rich soil, many minerals, religiously tolerant, and grows food crops.

Answer 14

Middle Colonies

Question 15

I am the region that is cold, has very short growing seasons, rocky soil, deep ports, and has tall pine trees.

Answer 15

New England Colonies

Question 16

I am the town that was the first permanent settlement in the colonies. What am I, and what year was I founded?

Answer 16

Jamestown, 1607

Question 17

I am the town where the Pilgrims settled. What am I called, and what year?

Answer 17

Plymouth, 1620

Question 18

I am what the Pilgrims signed since they were WAY off course. The men agree to work together/vote for the colony.

Answer 18

Mayflower Compact

Question 19

I am the first COLONIAL Constitution which limited the power of the colonial governor.

Answer 19

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Question 20

I am the first EVER colonial congress in Jamestown. Colonists voted for who represented them for this.

Answer 20

Virginia House of Burgesses (Note: A Burgess is the old word for Representative)

Question 21

I am a term that means to let the colonies do what they wish as long as it doesn’t violate English law.

Answer 21

Salutary Neglect

Question 22

An economic theory in which the colonies send items to the mother country(England) to make England rich!

Answer 22

Mercantilism

Question 23

I am a European country that once settled in Canada and the Ohio River Valley. This country wanted fur.

Answer 23

France

Question 24

I am a European country that owned the American Southwest, Florida, Texas, and everything below Texas except Brazil.

Answer 24

Spain

Question 25

I am the year in which the 13 colonies declare their independence due to bad taxation practices and other reasons..

Answer 25

1776

Question 26

I am the year in which the Treaty of Paris made America its own country?

Answer 26

1783

Question 27

I am the year in which the US wrote the Constitution.

Answer 27

1787

Question 28

I am the year in which President Jefferson buys the Louisiana Territory from France.

Answer 28

1803

Question 29

I am the year in which the US purchased Florida from Spain for 5 million dollars.

Answer 29

1819

Question 30

I am the belief of what the US had about expanding from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Answer 30

Manifest Destiny

Question 31

I am the year in which Mexico gains its independence from Spain.

Answer 31

1821

Question 32

I am the famous empresario and Father of Texas. I was arrested by Mexico for writing a letter.

Answer 32

Stephen F. Austin

Question 33

I am the dictator that takes over Mexico and goes to Texas to put down a rebellion. I was at the Alamo.

Answer 33

Santa Anna

Question 34

I am the treaty that Santa Anna signed after he was captured at the Battle of San Jacinto, Texas became free.

Answer 34

Treaty of Velasco

Question 35

This country didn’t recognize or accept the independence of Texas. It also thought the Nueces River was the border

Answer 35

Mexico

Question 36

This President promised annexation of Texas and that the US would expand to the Pacific Ocean.

Answer 36

James Polk

Question 37

This is the amount of money that the US offered Mexico its northern lands and what is now the SW part of the US.

Answer 37

30 million dollars

Question 38

This was the response to Mexico rejecting the offer of purchasing its northern lands.

Answer 38

Sending the US Army to Rio Grande

Question 39

This was the treaty that ended the Mexican War.

Answer 39

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 40

This is the land that the US purchased from Mexico after the Mexican War.

Answer 40

The Mexican Cession