He sailed the ocean blue in "fourteen hundred ninety-two".
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
Founded in 1607, it's the site of the first permanent English settlement in the United States.
What is Jamestown?
100
The year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
100
The name of the trail many Americans took to the West in the 1840's.
What is the Oregon Trail?
100
The name given to the South during the Civil War.
What is the Conferacy (or Confederate States of America)?
200
His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
200
The number of colonies that existed at the time of the American Revolution.
What is thirteen?
200
The name of the body of water where tea was dumped by colonists in protest of the tax on tea.
What is Boston Harbor?
200
The war in which Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that later became our National Anthem.
What is the War of 1812?
200
The state that is the site of Fort Sumter, the location of the first battle of the Civil War.
What is South Carolina?
300
The name given to the system of rivers that many European countries were hoping to find through the continent of North America on their way to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
This colony was founded by the Pilgrims in 1620.
What is Plymouth?
300
The name of the group of colonists who physically and verbally threatened representatives of King George III and those loyal to him.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
300
The current state that was once set aside as "Indian Territory" during the Indian Removal Act instituted by President Andrew Jackson.
What is Oklahoma?
300
The name given to people who worked to end slavery in America.
Who are abolitionists?
400
She was responsible for helping England become a world power partly because of the fact she sent many explorers to the Americas.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I
400
Before being overtaken by England, this colony was originally founded by the Dutch and named New Netherland.
What is New York?
400
The name of the winter camp in Pennsylvania where George Washington and his troops survived terrible conditions.
What is Valley Forge?
400
The name of the large purchase of land the United States made from France during 1803. Thomas Jefferson was President.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
400
The southern city destroyed by General Sherman and his forces during 1864.
What is Atlanta?
500
Though he was left in a rowboat by much of his crew because he wouldn't turn back, he does have two major bodies of water in North America named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
500
This colony was founded by Roger Williams after he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony.
What is Rhode Island?
500
Passed in 1765, the name of the law in which colonists had to have a "mark" placed on paper items they bought, proving they had paid the tax on the item.
What is the Stamp Act?
500
The name of the former Spanish mission where many Texans fought bravely for 11 days before falling to the Mexican Army during the war for Texas Independence.
What is the Alamo?
500
Considered a major battle of the Civil War, the Union victory in this battle gave the Union complete control of the Mississippi River.