Week 6 Review Flashcards
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
Protector of England who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
Who establised the first English colony in America?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
