American History Review

These colonies grew enough wheat to became known as the Breadbasket of the colonies.

Powers set aside in the Constitution for state governments.

A change to the Constitution.

These natives live in the far north near the Arctic Ocean.

This was the battle cry of the colonists against England.

This was one of the driving forces behind Spanish conquests in America.

Who led the Continental Army?

This ended the Revolutionary War.

These colonists resisted England's attempts to tax them.

These people fled to the New World to escape religious persecution in England.

What was our first plan of government called?

King George and Parliament imposed these to raise money to pay debts from the War.

This technique allows many people to successfully farm desert regions.

These young workers learned their trade at the hands of an artisan.

This Viking may have reached North America long before Columbus.

These people sailed down the Mississippi River and claimed an area of land they named Louisiana.

Volunteer armies are called...

Long ago the first people came to America by crossing this current body of water.

The Puritans sailed in 1630 and settled in what is now the large city of ......

This was the first successful English colony in the New World.

This explorer traveled the Silk Road to bring back goods for Europe.

The goal of the Bill of Rights. 

A suggestion for Congress that would give larger states more votes.

The Judicial Branch is headed by this group.

This explorer sailed west to get east to Asia.

These Spanish men defeated the mighty Aztec, Incan, and Mayan empires.

This English colony settled by Walter Raleigh disappeared.

Explorers from this European country led the way in trying to get to Asia by water.

This wiped out many thousands of Natives in America.

This was the start of the Revolutionary War.

These people's goal was to spread Christianity to the Natives.

German mercenaries captured at Trenton after Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas.

In the South, these places were self-sufficient and functioned like small towns.

This conflict between the English and French was over Native American lands.

A plan to count some slaves for both taxation and representation.

This German invented the printing press during the Renaissance.

Some Natives still live on these areas of land set aside for them by the American government.

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

The Southern colonies grew to rely heavily on these to support their way of life.

The French settled what is now these lands in their search for a Northwest Passage.

These animals helped Natives of the Great Plains be mobile.

New York City actually began as a Dutch settlement called.....

The President heads this branch of government.

These two events led to the British government seizing direct control of Boston.

These Europeans colonized the Southwest part of North America.

This man started fire stations, newspapers, hospitals, and libraries in Philadelphia.

Where was the Battle of Bunker Hill fought?

This American general became a traitor.

This was NOT one of the big American Native civilizations conquered by the Spanish.

These were natural resources in the New England colonies.

The movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and cultures between America and Europe.

The voyage of slaves from Africa to the West Indies and North America was called the..

Many colonists chose to do this rather than pay taxes on imported British goods.