A | B |
First permanent English colony settled here in 1607 | Jamestown |
This city, founded by the Spanish in 1609, is the oldest state capital in the U.S. | Santa Fe |
"No taxation without ______________" | representation |
The first legislature in America was established in this state in 1619 | Virginia |
Name two crops grown in Virginia | nuts, fruits, tobacco, grain, cotton, soybeans, potatoes |
American colonists wanted representation in this British institution | Parliament |
During this "get-together," tea from British ships was thrown into Boston Harbor | Boston Tea Party |
The British passed this law to pay for the French & Indian War | the Stamp Act |
He proposed the first national government in 1754 | Benjamin Franklin |
This assembly was chosen by the colonists to convene in Philadelphia in 1774 | the First Continental Congress |