Founding America
Who published Poor Richards Almanac
Benjamin Franklin
What year did Christopher Columbus first sale to the New World?
1492
What were the colonist trying to protect in fighting the War for Independence?
4 years
What year was the adoption of the Declaration of Independence
1776
Who founded Philadelphia Academy?
Ben Franklin
Who was the first secretary of the treasury?
Alexander Hamilton
What year was the first shot of the War for Independence?
1775
What was the 1777-1778 winter camp of the Continental Army?
Valley Forge
What document helped prepare England for limited government?
35
Who was the chief executive officer of each colony was who?
Governor
Where did the First Continental Congress meet?
Philadelphia
What was the first permanent European settlement in the present-day United States?
Jamestown
What was the most widely used textbook in colonial America?
New England Primer
Who was the first chief justice of the supreme court?
John Jay
What year did the English defeat the Spanish Armada?
1588
What was the first major battle of the war?
Bunker Hill
Who wrote history of Plymouth Plantation
William Bradford
What branch of government interprets the laws?
Judicial
Rice and indigo were most frequently grown in the coastal regions of what colonies?
Southern
What compromise during the Constitutional Convention called for bicameral legistlature?
Connecticut Compromise
Who founded the settlement of Providence?
Roger Williams
The Great Awakening prepared the colonies for both political and _______ freedoms?
religious
What city was the first capital of the US after the Constitution was ratified?
New York City
British soldiers could legally occupy colonial buildings through what act?
What year did the pilgrims land at New Plymouth?
1620
Where was the "shot heard around the world"
Lexington and Concord
What English monarch broke ties with the Roman Catholic Church, beginning the English Reformation?
Henry VIII
What are the three branches of the government?
Executive, Legislative, and Judicial
Who preached the famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of the Angry God"?
Jonathon Edwards
Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists stood for what kind of interpretation of the Constitution?
Loose
Who was the first gov of the Plymouth Colony
John Carver
Who wrote the famous pamphlet Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
The name given to the president's advisors is the what?
Cabinet
Who led the Green Mountain Boys to capture fort Ticonderoga?
Ethan Allen
What year did the treaty of Paris end the War of Independence?
1783
What was the Patriot victory that ended the war?
The crusades
The first ten amendments to the Constitution was called what?
Bill of Rights
What type of colonies were given by the king to individual owner to rule?
Proprietary
Who was the American traitor that helped the British during the War for Independence?
Benedict Arnold
Pennsylvania was founded as a haven for who?
Quakers
Who introduced the smallpox inoculation?
Cotton Mather
Who was the first secretary of state of the United States?
Thomas Jefferson
What year was the founding of Harvard college?
1636
What battle did nearly 1,000 Hessians were captured?
Trenton
Who sighted the Pacific Ocean
Vasco de Balboa
The United States government was founded as what kind of government?
Federal Republic
Who was the best-known missionary to the native Americans?
David Brainerd
What year was the meeting of the Constitutional Convention?
1787
Who founded the city of Quebec?
Samuel de Champlain
What act established the first town school system in America?
Old Deluder Satan Act
What year did the Stamp act congress meet?
1765
What battle was the turning point of the war?
Saratoga
Who discovered the Mississippi River?
Hernando de Soto
What form of government does the Constitution guarantee to each state?
Republican
Rhode Island
What year was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?
1791