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This American military leader (allegedly) accidentally started the French and Indian War and led the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
This battle ended the Revolutionary War and was a major victory for the Americans.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This European explorer famously "discovered" America in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This colony was the first British settlement in North America.
What is Roanoke?
France gave this European nation control of the Louisiana territory just before the end of the French and Indian War.
What is Spain?
This kind of person lived in the American colonies and supported the American Revolution.
What is a patriot?
This document is the oldest written and coded constitution still in use in the world.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This porky colonist led a rebellion that overthrew the colonial governor of Virginia.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
These famous battles were the start of the Revolutionary War (must get both to get all points).
What are the Battles at Lexington and Concord?
Spanish explorers came to the Americas seeking these two things (the two Gs).
What are gold and glory?
This colony had a capital at Hartford, was founded by Roger Williams, and had the first written constitution in North America.
What is Connecticut?
This fort in western Pennsylvania later became the city of Pittsburg and was the first battle of the French and Indian War.
What is Fort Duquense?
This document officially ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This document was the first constitution for the United States of America.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This colonist famously protested the Good Works Covenant and helped to found the colony of Rhode Island.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
Washington's famous "March Across the Delaware" began which two famous Revolutionary War Battles? (Must get both to get full points.)
What are the Battles of Trenton and Princeton?
This site on the Mississippi River was home to the largest Native American settlement in North America.
What is Cahokia?
This group from Virginia was the first elected legislature in North America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This British Prime Minister made major changes to their warplan that helped the British win the French and Indian War.
Who is William Pitt?
This song was written to make fun of the Americans by the British during the Revolutionary War but later turned into an anthem of American pride.
What is Yankee Doodle?
This is an addition or change to the U.S. Constitution. There have been 20 over the course of our nation's history.
What is an amendment?
This British general captured Philadelphia but decided not to march his troops on to Albany.
Who is William Howe?
This battle was a major turning point in the Revolutionary War for the Americans and helped to convince the French to join the war on the side of the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This type of colonial Spanish settlement served as a center of trade and commerce.
What is a pueblo?
The colony of Jamestown was founded in this year.
What is 1607?
These were the two major French advantages during the French and Indian War.
What are a better knowledge of terrain and friendly relationships with the Native Americans?
This person was a loyalist who lived in the American colonies during the Revolution.
What is a "tory"?
This was the one accomplishment of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain?
This faithful Catholic and his son founded Maryland.
Who is George Calvert?
This was the fort a young George Washington built at the beginning of the French and Indian War. It late became the battle site where the war started.
What is Fort Necessity?
Name all 5 classes in the Colonial Spanish Class System from highest class to lowest class.
What are PENINSULARES, CREOLES, MESTIZOS, NATIVE AMERICANS, ENSLAVED AFRICANS?
This document contained fundamental ideas that would later shape the U.S. and helped to establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
These battles signified an end to the French's presence in North America (must get both for all points).
What are the Battles for Quebec and Montreal?
These were all of the British advantages during the American Revolution (must give all advantages to receive all points).
What are strongest navy in the world, well-trained army, wealth from their empire, and larger population?
These were all of the federal government's powers under the Articles of Confederation.
What are foreign affairs, maintain army, borrow money, and issue currency?