Politics & Leadership
The English settler who built the first permanent English settlement in the New World in 1607.
Who is John Smith.
As a result of a brutal war with colonists, they signed the Treaty of Hartford in 1638 that ended the war. Then the English abolished the tribe, enslaved, and distributed them among their Native Allies.
What is the Pequot War.
The institution got its start in 1619 when a group of 20 Africans arrived in Jamestown.
What is slavery.
The first cash crop in the colonies.
What is Tobacco
The tribe that built the cliff dwellings known as Mesa Verde.
What is the Pueblo.
He along with a group of Puritan settlers founded the colony of Massachusetts in 1630.
Who is John Winthrop.
Led by Metacom also known as King Philip, chief of the Wampanog tribe, this war between 1675-1676 was the last serious threat to the survival of English settlements in North America.
What is King Philip's War.
One of the first prominent female religious leaders in American history, she was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 for defying orders from Puritan authorities to stop holding religious meetings.
Who is Ann Hutchinson.
When a group of investors pools their resources together they were considered the first corporations.
What are Joint-Stock Companies.
Founded by the Spanish in what was called La Florida meaning flowery, this is the oldest continuously occupied settlement in the United States.
What is St. Augustine.
He was the leader of the Pilgrams who landed at Plymoth Rock in 1620
Who is William Bradford
The largest armed conflict in North America in the era before the American Revolution.
What is the French and Indian War.
The founder of Rhode Island, he was an early champion or religious freedom who was banished from Massachusetts for his beliefs.
Who is Roger Williams.
This economic system in the 13 colonies is known for its stifling rules and regulations that squeezed every penny of revenue out of the colonies.
What is Mercantilism?
Designed by a founding father and former president, he built his 43 room mansion on a 1000 acre plantation that he inherited.
What is Monticello.
A landmark document that was agreed upon the Mayflower before they actually set foot in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact.
It was sensationalized as a massacre in the local papers and used inflame public opinion against the British.
What is the Boston Massacre.
Her execution by hanging in Massachusetts in 1660 marked the beginning of one of the worst outbreaks of religious persecution in early American History.
Who is Mary Dyer.
Eli Whitney's invention for harvesting cotton.
What is the Cotton Gin.
Puritans began this laid its foundation in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1636 as the first institution of higher learning in the New World.
What is Harvard.
His most famous pamphlet, published anonymously in 1776 called for Americans to recognize the absurdity that a hereditary king of a faraway island would govern the 13 colonies.
Who is Adam Smith.
This event in 1773 occurred when dressed as Indians the Son's of Liberty, in an act of defiance, threw expensive imported tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party.
William Penn began the colony as a result of Charles the II owing to his prominent father a lot of money.
What is Pennsylvania.
This narrow alley in downtown Manhattan has been the nation's financial capital ever since a group of 24 stockbrokers set up the first American stock exchange under a buttonwood tree in 1792.
What is Wall Street.
The location of this city was a compromise between north and south states when it was built between the borders of Virginia and Maryland.
What is Washington D.C.