This territory created the dispute in the Americas between the French and English conflicting claims to the land.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
100
Author of the phrase "give me liberty or give me death".
Who is Patrick Henry?
100
The Sons of Liberty dumped tea in Boston Harbor in protest of taxes that favored a British company over colonists needs.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
The practice of forcing American sailors to work on British ships.
What is impressment?
100
The first conflicts in the Virginia territory were caused by the continual development of this settler behavior.
What is moving west onto Native American lands?
200
Colonial who presumptively attacked the French and was captured but later released.
Who is George Washington?
200
This was a major dispute between the Americans and the British.
What is "taxation without representation"?
200
Slave rebellion in protest of limits on slave education in South Carolina in 1739?
What is Stono Rebellion?
200
These gentleman in Congress eyed the valuable lands of Canada as a goal of American expansion.
Who are the War Hawks?
200
This Native American provided the early pilgrims the survival skils needed to survive in the earliest years of the Massachusetts colony.
Who is Squanto?
300
Quebec was a strong defensive fort due to these geographic barriers.
What are cliff faces?
300
The author of the phrase "summer soldier and sunshine patriot" .
Who is Thomas Paine?
300
Massachusetts farmers rose up against the tax policies of the state after the revolution leading many to fear for the stability of the new nation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
Francis Scott key viewed the bombardment at Ft. McHenry and made this lasting contribution to the nation.
What is writing the "Star Spangled Banner"?
300
Native American leader who founded the Iroquois Confederation with Dekanawida.
Who is Hiawatha?
400
The Treaty of Paris, 1763 gave the victors, the English these lands.
What is Canada and French claims east of the Mississippi River?
400
Served as Ambassador to France greatly assisting effort to achieve foreign aid.
Who is Ben Franklin?
400
A solar eclipse was viewed by this man as a sign to lead slaves to freedom in Virginia leading to the deaths of 55 whites and the execution of the slave leader.
Who is Nat Turner?
400
Dolly Madison saved this portrait when the British burned the White House.
What is the portrait of George Washington?
400
Led Native American tribes to form a confederation to stop white movement west describing the situation as "my people are like the snow in a spring sun".
Who is Tecumseh?
500
Native American tribal groups supported the French except for this one group.
Who are the Iroquois?
500
Famous traitor to the American cause.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
500
Leader of the successful slave rebellion in Haiti in the early 1800's.
Who is Touissant L'overture?
500
The hero of New Orleans.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
500
The conflict between the Indian Confederation led by Tecumseh and western settlers became known as this war in 1812.