Recitation
These twin brothers are the founders of Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
This man discovered the new world, and fitting to his name, 'brought-Christ' with him.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This was the year in which a very famous Italian sailed the ocean blue.
What is 1492?
This was the first permanent English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This was the ship that bore the Pilgrims across the water in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
Rome is built on this number of landform.
What are Seven Hills?
This man was a revolutionary-era American sage, scholar, and politician.
Who is Dr. Ben Franklin?
This event was known as the "Shot[s] heard 'round the world."
What is the Battle[s] of Lexington [and Concord]?
This is the valley where Washington and his troops spent a freezing winter.
What is Valley Forge?
Our first flag had 13 stripes and 13 stars, based on this man's coat of arms.
Who is Washington?
These two wicked cities were destroyed by God with fire and brimstone.
What were Sodom and Gomorrah?
"Men may cry peace, peace! But there is no peace! The war is actually begun!" he says, in his Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech.
Who was Patrick Henry?
In 1776, the Continental Congress published this document in Philadelphia, announcing the colonists' intent to separate from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This was the de facto capital of the United Colonies; where the Continental Congress met.
What is Philadelphia?
This was the major economic divide between the Northern and Southern colonies.
The Southern colonies were largely agricultural and the Northern colonies were more industrial.
This man held off the Etruscans at the bridge.
Who was Horatius Cocles?
This British general surrendered to Washington following the American-French siege of Yorktown in 1781.
Who is General Cornwallis?
Parliament passed these acts, spurring the colonists to revolution.
What are the Townsend Acts, Stamp Acts, and/or the Intolerable Acts? (Will accept any of those three answers for full points.)
Sharing a name with your pencils, this fortress was of great importance to the Americans during the Revolution as a source of cannon.
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
This was John Smith's rule for life in Jamestown.
What is "He who shall not work shall not eat"?
He was the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
Who was Romulus Augustulus?
This man executed King Charles the First, and became Lord Protector of England.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
On this day, Washington and his soldiers crossed the Delaware to surprise the Brit's Hessian soldiers.
What is Christmas Day?
This is the name of the spot where the Pilgrims landed.
What is Plymouth Rock?
This patriot-turned-traitor is famously buried in two different locations.
Who is Benedict Arnold?