American Revolution
Both the First and Second Continental Congresses met in this city prior to - and partially during - the American Revolutionary War.
What is Philadelphia?
This conquistador led the overthrow of the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernan Cortez?
This portion of the 'Triangular Trade' brought enslaved Africans to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
This religion includes beliefs about the divinity of nature and perceives material objects as having spiritual essences (soul-adjacent essences).
What is animism?
Following the American Revolution, the new nation owed vast amounts of money to which European ally in particular?
What is France?
This 'Intolerable Act' allowed British soldiers to bunk in unused or abandoned property owned by American colonials.
What is the Quartering Act?
This uprising in western Massachusetts was caused by aggressive taxation policies meant to payoff Revolutionary War debts.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This Chesapeake colony, first governed by Lord Baltimore, was founded as a haven for English Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This illness was responsible for the deaths of up to 90% of the indigenous population in North America.
What is smallpox?
This social contract theorist wrote about the 'general will' and the role 'collective' interests played in legitimizing governments, as opposed to individual or personal self-interest.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This French soldier and military leader served alongside Washington for a huge portion of the Revolutionary war, even before France became officially involved.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
George Washington led his first major command during this conflict in the northern colonies prior to the Revolutionary War.
What is the French and Indian War?
This southern proprietary colony originally did not allow for slavery within its borders.
What is Georgia?
The Native American Pocahontas, whose experiences with colonists and John Smith were later stylized by a Disney animated film, was a member of which tribe?
(Hint: they went to war with Virginian colonists three separate times)
Who are the Powhatan?
These two states did NOT originally have Senators in the first American Congress, due to not having ratified the Constitution by Congress' start date.
What are Rhode Island and North Carolina?
The American victory at this battle in upstate New York helped encourage the French to officially recognize American independence.
What is the battle of Saratoga?
The Stono Rebellion featured self-liberated slaves attempting to escape to what southern colony/state? Who was in control of that region at the time?
What is Spanish Florida?
This cash-crop was grown largely in the south on slave plantations, and it was known for being extremely damaging to the soil.
What is tobacco?
What is the Inca?
This leader of the 'Federalist' movement nevertheless helped launch, alongside Jefferson, the Republican Party due to his disagreements with Alexander Hamilton.
Who is James Madison?
This inconclusive battle, fought by Washington in June of 1778 after a long winter at Valley Forge, was the final confrontation of the Pennsylvania Campaign.
What is the Battle of Monmouth Court House?
Named after its leader, this Rebellion saw frontiersmen set Jamestown ablaze over disagreements on how to handle relationships with the local indigenous tribes; the rebels favored harsher repression on natives.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This colony was founded by a Separatist Puritan unhappy with the religious restrictions he encountered in Massachusetts Bay.
What is Rhode Island?
The Tuscarora migrated to this state/colony after their defeat during the North Carolinian Tuscarora Wars.
What is New York?
This founding father was particularly interested in 'fiscal policy', given his Executive role as head of the Treasury under Washington.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?