All Things Spanish
This Pueblo town, founded in 1610, sits East of the Rio Grande River. FUN FACT: It holds the 505 Area Code.
What is Santa Fe, New Mexico
This French explorer was credited for sailing the Mississippi River length from the North to the South in 1682.
Who was René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
or (La Salle)
Anne Hutchinson was a colonial settler of this city.
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
This Conflict reset relations between Natives and the Spanish in 1680.
What was the Pueblo Revolt?
This group is credited for sailing the first Slaves into Virginia in 1619.
Who were the Dutch?
This Spanish explorer landed in and took over Veracruz in 1519.
Who was Hernan Cortez?
This French Trading Post, founded in 1608, is now one of Canada's largest cities.
What is Quebec?
This man is credited for founding the Rhode Island Territory and the City of Providence, besides welcoming religious toleration.
Who was Roger Williams?
This Governor gave away Manhattan to England without a fight. (He also had a peg-leg)
Who was Peter Stuyvesant?
This colony made heresy punishable by death in 1646.
What is Massachusetts?
Pope Alexander VI's decision to separate the Atlantic Ocean (preventing a war between Portugal and Spain) was in June of 1494.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
In 1701, The French founded this trading post in the State of Michigan. Today this city is home to Lions, Pistons, and Tigers.
What is Detroit?
This Colony outlaws Slavery in 1652.
What is Rhode Island?
This treaty ended the hostility between England & the Dutch in 1674.
What was the Treaty of Westminster?
This law prevented imports and exports to the colonies by foreign governments starting in 1663.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This young Princess was Promised to a young Prince who eventually became King of Spain.
Who was Queen (princess) Isabella?
The Seven Years' War lasted how many years?
9 Years (1754 - 1763)
This war in 1675 erupted due to colonial expansion, consistently impeding Native territory.
What was King Philip's War?
This conflict in 1715 - 1717 was a product of unpaid debt by Natives in the Carolina Territory, which ultimately shipped 10,000 natives to Barbados as Slaves.
What is the Yamasee Uprising?
This colony made laws about enslaved people (specifically African), a lifelong service in 1664 (New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and the Carolinas made similar laws).
What is Maryland?
These churches were separated by one day's walk on the United States West Coast.
The Catholic Mission System. Or any answer that refers to the Missions.
This English King fled to France in the face of deposition. He was also the Duke of York.
Who was King James II
This member of the Religious Society of Friends received land from King Charles II as repayment for his father's service to the Crown.
Who was William Penn?
This religious group is responsible for creating the "hand-shake" as a sign of peace and goodwill.
Who are the Quakers?
This conflict in 1715 - 1717 was a product of unpaid debt by Natives in the Carolina Territory, which ultimately shipped 10,000 natives to Barbados as Slaves.
What is The Yamasee uprising?