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This man claimed land for Spain when he landed in Hispaniola 1492.
Who was Christopher Columbus
This land purchase was made by Thomas Jefferson and it over doubled the land in the U.S.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
In 1773, the colonists protested against this tax by refusing tea shipments and destroying property.
What was the Tea Act?
This is the number of original English Colonies in North America.
What is 13?
These were considered highways to the West before more modern transportation methods were developed.
What were rivers?
This man served as the president of the Constitutional Convention and later served as president of the U.S.
Who was George Washington?
This is the name of the first successful English colony in America.
What is Jamestown?
These were the winners of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
This feat of modern technology connected the Hudson River to Lake Erie and allowed goods to be moved more easily to the Great Lakes.
What was the Erie Canal?
This act required all newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards to be taxed.
What was the Stamp Act?
This man wrote the Star Spangled Banner as he watched the Battle of Fort McHenry.
Who was Frances Scott Key?
This campaign lasted from September to December in 1864 and left a path of complete destruction through Georgia.
What was Sherman's March to the Sea?
This three day battle of the Civil War was considered to be the turning point of the war.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
This is the state that the Pilgrims settled in 1620.
What is Massachusetts?
This time period in American history tried to rebuild the relationships between the North and the South after the Civil War.
What was the Reconstruction Era?
He was the owner of the land where gold was discovered in 1848.
Who was John Sutter?
This act in the 1830's was initiated by Andrew Jackson in favor of settlers wanting more land.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
This battle of the Civil War is considered the Bloodiest Day in American History.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This is the Illinois town where Abraham Lincoln settled when he moved away from his family for the first time.
What was New Salem?
This is the state established as a refuge for Catholics in the early colonial period.
What is Maryland?
This is the man that established Georgia as a colony for the poor and debtors of England.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
In this compromise California entered as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act was enacted.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
In 1763 the British created this line to keep colonists from crossing the Appalachians into Indian country.
What was the Proclamation Line of 1763?
This small piece of land was purchased from Mexico in 1853 for $15 million after the Mexican American War.
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
This was the yearly meeting point for the Mountain Men where they brought their goods to sell and to buy supplies for their next season.
What was the Rendezvou?