Exploring the Americas
Colonial Times
Revolution
Manifest Destiny
Civil War
100
Spanish explorers were called
What is conquistador
100
What crop was important in making Jamestown and early Virginia an economic success
What is tobacco
100
British regulation prohibiting colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763
100
Canvas-covered wagon used by pioneers in the mid 1800s
What is a prairie schooner
100
The Battle of Bull Run was also called
What is The Battle of First Manassas
200
First Spanish landing on the North American continent was made by who
Who is Ponce de Leon
200
Term for the terrible winter of 1609/1610 in Jamestown
What is "the starving time"
200
American loyalists to the crown
What are loyalists
200
The capital of Florida was located midway between what two cities
What is St. Augustine and Pensacola
200
Northernmost point of the confederate invasion in to the North and the site of a great battle
What is The Battle of Gettysburg
300
Movement which led to a form of Christianity that did not accept the Pope's leadership
What is the Reformation
300
The group that the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Tuscarora belonged to
What is the Iroquois Confederacy
300
Said "the distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American".
Who is Patrick Henry
300
Family of missionaries who built a mission among the Cayuse and then were killed by them after introducing them to measles
Who were the Whitmans
300
The battle for a major railway junction that was a Union victory
What is The Battle of Shiloh
400
Top of the Spanish empire's class system. Term for people born in Spain.
What is peninsulares
400
A document that grants the right to organize a settlement in an area
What is a charter
400
Resolutions prepared by people of Boston and other towns in Massachusetts declaring the Coercive Acts to be illegal
What are the Suffolk Reserves
400
Magazine editor who declared it was the "manifest destiny" of the United States to expand westward towards the Pacific
Who was John L. O'Sullivan
400
Lee's entrenched forces defeated the Union at this town
What is Fredericksburg
500
French explorer searching for the Northwest Passage.
Who is Jacques Cartier
500
British general defeated by the French and Americans, ending the Revolution
Who is Cornwallis
500
What city did the Oregon Trail begin at
What is Independence
500
Union officer who climbed into his ship's rigging and had himself tied in place in order to have a good view
Who is David Farragut
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