This is the approximate length of time Native Americans have been on this continent.
What is anywhere from 12,000 to 15,000 years?
100
This is the year that the first African slaves were brought to an English settlement.
What is 1619?
100
This man was popular with French ladies, was an accomplished inventor, and was instrumental in gaining the support of the French.
Who was Ben Franklin?
100
This man defended British soldiers accused of murder during the Boston Massacre, became the first Vice-President of the United States, and became the second president.
Who was John Adams?
100
This is the location of the first shot of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington?
200
This is the location of the first recorded Native American revolt.
What is Santa Fe?
200
This is the name of the crop that guaranteed the colony's survival.
What is tobacco?
200
This is the name of the German soldiers who fought for Britain in the American War of Independence.
Who were the Hessians?
200
This man is famous for the quote, "Give me liberty, or give me death."
Who was Patrick Henry?
200
This is the name of a series of laws passed by Britain to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea Party?
What is the Townsend Acts or the Intolerable Acts?
300
This is the name of the tribe that was slaughtered in the "Mystic Massacre" in the area we now call Connecticut.
What is the Pequot?
300
This is the name of the period when almost all of the colonists starved to death or died of disease.
What is "The Starving Time?"
300
These two countries dominated the slave trade in the years prior to the settlement of Jamestown.
What are Spain and Portugal?
300
This man was the first Commander-in-Chief of the American army.
Who was George Washington?
300
This is the name of the pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that inspired the American troops during a crisis.
What is Common Sense?
400
This is the name of the political organization that mostly sided with the British in the American War of Independence.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
400
This is the cause of the crop failures that led to starvation in 1609.
What is drought?
400
This is the name of the route slave traders used to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
400
This man was a talented silversmith. However, he is best remembered for warning the American colonists of the British approach on Lexington and Concord.
Who was Paul Revere?
400
This is the name of the location where Prescott supposedly said, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" The British lost a thousand men here, but won the battle.
What is Bunker Hill or Breed's Hill?
500
This is the year that Native Americans were granted full citizenship in the United States.
What is 1924?
500
This is the name of the English colony that came before Jamestown, but that did not survive.
What is Roanoke?
500
This is the document that includes the phrase "endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
This is the name of the man credited with writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
500
This is the location where Benedict Arnold distinguished himself as a brave leader, but where he also permanently injured his leg.