Old World, New World
On October 12, 1492, Columbus spotted land in the Bahamas and gave the island this name, meaning "Holy Savior."
What is San Salvador?
Founded in 1607 and named for King James I, this was the first permanent English colony.
What is Jamestown?
In America, the Seven Years' War (1754-1763) came to be known by this name.
What is the French and Indian War?
Protesting the Stamp Act, colonists cried out "No taxation without" this.
What is representation?
On Christmas night 1776, Washington led his men across this river to surprise the Hessians at Trenton.
What is the Delaware River?
The name "America" comes from the first name of this Italian-born navigator, one of the first to guess Columbus had found a new landmass.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
King James called it a "filthy novelty," but this cash crop saved Virginia from collapse.
What is tobacco?
This 1215 document placed restraints on King John and is one of the deep roots of the English tradition of limiting a king's power.
What is the Magna Carta?
In 1773, sixteen disguised colonists dumped East India Company tea into the harbor in this famous event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
General Burgoyne's surrender at this battle in 1777 was the turning point that convinced France to join the American side.
What is Saratoga?
In 1517, this German monk took offense at the Church's practice of selling indulgences.
Who is Martin Luther?
Landing outside any known government at Cape Cod, the Pilgrims signed this short document to organize themselves as a political body.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Starting in the 1730s, waves of religious revival swept the colonies in this mass movement.
What is the Great Awakening?
Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet that sold more than 150,000 copies in three months and attacked the very idea of monarchy.
What is Common Sense?
This Prussian officer arrived at Valley Forge in February 1778 and drilled the American troops into a real army.
Who is (Friedrich Wilhelm) von Steuben?
This English king split from the Roman Catholic Church after the Pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
Who is Henry VIII?
Aboard the Arbella, John Winthrop told his fellow Puritans, "We shall be as a city upon" this.
What is a hill?
This golden-voiced British preacher arrived in Philadelphia in 1739 and could hold the attention of crowds as large as twenty thousand.
Who is George Whitefield?
The book says this date, when Richard Henry Lee's independence resolution passed, "really should be the day that Americans celebrate Independence Day."
What is July 2 (1776)?
This French admiral's fleet defeated the British navy at the Battle of the Chesapeake, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown.
Who is Comte de Grasse?
Besides better ships and tactics, the English were helped against the Spanish Armada by an unexpected storm known by this nickname.
What is the "Protestant wind"?
William Penn called his Pennsylvania colony, which offered complete freedom of worship to all, by this two-word name.
What is a "Holy Experiment"?
In 1759, General James Wolfe defeated the French at Quebec City on this plateau, ending French ambitions in North America.
What is the Plains of Abraham?
On the same day Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, it passed this act claiming the power "to bind the colonies and people of America."
What is the Declaratory Act?
Washington saw this 1712 play by Joseph Addison many times and tried to follow the example of its hero, a Roman senator who opposed Julius Caesar.
What is Cato, a Tragedy?