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
