Famous Missionaries, Evangelists and Explorers
Colonial times
Land of the Free
(new American Govt.)
(new American Govt.)
War for Independence
American Geography
13 Colonies Geography
100
The best known missionary to the Indians
Who is David Brainerd
100
Colony that set a precedent of religious freedom
What is Rhode Island
100
First Secretary of State for the United States
Who is Thomas Jefferson
100
Led the Green Mountain Boys to capture Fort Ticonderoga
Who is Ethan Allen
100
Number 4 on the map
What is Rio Grande
100
Number 9 on the map
What is Maryland
200
discovered the Pacific Ocean
Who is Vasco de Balboa
200
This colony was founded as a haven for Quakers
What is Pennsylvania
200
Type of government that the Articles of Confederation established
What is a confederacy
200
location of the "shot heard round the world"
What is Lexington
200
Number 12 on the map
What is Lake Ontario
200
Number 11 on the map
What is North Carolina
300
discovered the Mississippi River
Who is Hernando de Soto
300
These colonies were known as the bread colonies
What is the middle colonies
300
First capital of the United States under the Constitution
What is New York City
300
The turning point of the war
What is Saratoga
300
Number 5 on the map
What is Mount Whitney
300
Number 2 on the map
What is New York
400
Prepared the hearts of the colonists for religious and political freedom
What is the Great Awakening
400
Type of colonies that were under direct authority of the king
What is royal
400
During the Constitutional Convention, what plan combined the VA and NJ plans, calling for a bicameral legislature?
What is Connecticut or Great Compromise
400
1777-1778 winter camp of the Continental army
What is Valley Forge
400
Number 1 on the map
What is the Colorado River
400
Number 5 on the map
What is Rhode Island
500
Religious wars that revived interest in trade with the East
What are the Crusades
500
first governor of the Plymouth colony
Who is John Carver
500
First 10 amendments to the Consitution
What is Bill of Rights
500
American traitor that helped British during War for Independence
Who is Benedict Arnold
500
Number 9 on the map
What is the Appalachian Mountains
500
Number 7 on the map
What is Pennsylvania
600
First permanent French settlement
What is Quebec
600
wrote Of Plymouth Plantation
who is William Bradford
600
First secretary of treasury
Who is Alexander Hamilton
600
Famous naval hero who shouted, "I have not yet begun to fight"
Who is John Paul Jones
600
Number 11 on the Map
What is Great Salt Lake
600
Number 13 on the map
What is Georgia
700
Preached the famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Who is Jonathan Edwards
700
Name of the most widely read textbook in colonial America
What is the New England Primer
700
Name of the President's advisors
What is Cabinet
700
Wrote the pamphlet Common Sense, giving an account of abuses of the English monarchy and Parliament
Who is Thomas Paine
700
Number 8 on the map
What are the Rocky Mountains
700
Number 3 on the map
What is Massachusetts
800
Man credited with being the first to realize that Columbus had discovered a new continent
Who is Amerigo Vespucci
800
Incident in the Virginia colony that indicated the colonists expected the government's protection
What is Bacon's Rebellion
800
In order to guard against man's sinful nature, the Constitution created these three branches of government providing separate but equal powers
What are Legislative, Judicial, and Executive
800
The first major battle of the war
What is Battle of Bunker Hill
800
Number 13 on the map
What is Lake Erie
800
Number 6 on the map
What is New Jersey
900
First permanent European settlement
What is St. Augustine
900
Act of Parliament that levied a tax on all legal documents in the colonies
What is the Stamp Act
900
Political party that stood for a loose construction of the Constitution
Who are the Federalists
900
Patriot victory which ended the war
What is Battle of Yorktown
900
Number 6 on the map
What is Mt. Mitchell
900
Number 4 on the map
What is Connecticut
1000
Governor of Puerto Rico and first Spanish person to land on the mainland of North America
Who is Ponce de Leon
1000
Act that established the first town school system in America
What is the Old Deluder Satan Act
1000
Branch of government that interprets laws
What is judicial
1000
Battle where Hessians were captured on Christmas night
What is Battle of Trenton
1000
Number 3 on the map
What is the Missouri River
1000
Number 8 on the map
What is Delaware
1100
English evangelist who had the greatest influence on America during the Great Awakening
Who is George Whitefield
1100
English monarch who broke with the Roman Catholic Church, beginning the English Reformation
Who is Henry VIII
1100
Country Pinckney Treaty negotiated with over the Florida border dispute
What is Spain
1100
French aide to George Washington
Who is Marquis de Lafayette
1100
Number 7 on the map
What is Mt. McKinley
1100
Number 1 on the map
What is New Hampshire
1200
Led an expedition that discovered the St. Lawrence River
Who is Jacques Cartier
1200
Colony that established the House of Burgesses
What is Jamestown
1200
The Constitution established this type of government
What is a federal republic
1200
Treaty that ended the War for Independence
What is Treaty of Paris
1200
Number 10 on the map
What are the Coast Ranges
1200
Number 10 on the map
What is Virginia
1300
Missionary who wrote the Algonquin Bible, the first Bible to be printed in America
Who is John Eliot
1300
This man helped introduce the smallpox vaccine
Who is Cotton Mather
1300
Name for interpreting the Constitution exactly as it is written
What is strict construction
1300
People who remained loyal to the king and opposed the War for Independence
What are loyalists or tories
1300
Number 2 on the map
What is the Mississippi River
1300
Number 12 on the map
What is South Carolina
1400
founded Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Who is Count von Zinzendorf
1400
Industry that contributed the most to the Colonial economy
What is agriculture
1400
Act that established a federal mint and provided for the coinage of gold, silver, and copper
What is Mint Act of 1792
1400
Famous event that occurred on the night of December 6, 1773 where patriots disguised as Indians dumped 340 tea chests into Boston Harbor
What is Boston Tea Party
1500
Water route through North America that French explorers came to search for
What is Northwest Passage
1500
The Magna Carta prepared this country for limited government
What is England
1500
America's 2nd President
Who is John Adams
1500
Meeting in Philadelphia in June 1774 to discuss what actions colonists should take regarding the crisis with England
What is the First Continental Congress