Notable People
Things involving Conflict
Groups of People
Hodge Podge
Famous Places/People
100
A French explorer who explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. .
Who was Robert de LaSalle
100
A forcible overthrow of a government or social order for a new system.
What is Revolution
100
Scots-Irish f from along the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania who formed a vigilante group to retaliate against local American Indians in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion.
What are the Paxton Boys
100
The zone demarcating the Piedmont from the Atlantic coastal plain
What is Fall Line
100
U.S. college named for John Harvard (1607-38), Puritan immigrant minister who bequeathed half his estate and 260 books to the yet unorganized college that had been ordered by the Massachusetts colonial government
What is Harvard College
200
One of the founding fathers of the United States who helped draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776. He also negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War (1775-83). In 1787, in his final significant act of public service, he was a delegate to the convention that produced the U.S. Constitution.
Who was Benjamen Franklin
200
A fort established by the French in 1754, at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in what is now downtown Pittsburgh in the state of Pennsylvania.
What is Fort Duquesne
200
Immigrants and their descendants from southwestern Germany and Switzerland who settled in Pennsylvania in the 17th and 18th centuries.
What are the Pennsylvania Dutch
200
An early attempt at forming a union of the colonies "under one government during the French and Indian War proposed by Ben Franklin at an Albany Conference.
What is the Albany Plan
200
The commander in chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783, and later the first president of the United States, an office to which he was twice elected.
Who was George Washington
300
An English historical and portrait-painter, was born on in 1738, at Springfield, Pennsylvania, of an old Quaker family who gained fame for his paintings of the American Revolution
Who is Benjamin West
300
A series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court of trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex counties of colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693
What were the Salem Witch Trials
300
The people of Scotland who settled in northern Ireland or their descendants, especially those who emigrated to North America.
What are the Scotch-Irish
300
Any gradual process of formation or growth
What is Evolution
300
The greatest, most revered and most compassionate General to ever lead a war
Who was General Robert E. Lee
400
An African who was purchased by the wealthy Wheatly Family of Boston in the mid 1700s who recognized her talents with poetry and they educated and trained her to become a great respected poet.
Who is Phyllis Wheatley
400
A German immigrant who printed a publication that harshly criticized the royal governor accusing him of an assortment of crimes and basically labeled him an idiot. He was sued for libel and acquitted.
Who is John Peter Zenger
400
Independent southern farmers living on family-sized farms (didn't own slaves)
What are Yeoman Farmers
400
A form of direct Democratic rule among a group of people in close proximity
What are town meetings
400
The greatest, most beautiful and diverse state in all of the United States which includes beautiful coastal areas, the best medical facilities, breathtaking mountains and the most famous college basketball teams in the country
What is North Carolina
500
French navigator and cartographer who made the first accurate coastal map of upper America and Canada.
Who is Samuel de Champlain
500
A buffer zone" (any area that serves the purpose of keeping two or more other areas distant from one another) between the British colonies and other settlements. For example, Georgia, specifically, was founded to protect South Carolina against attack by the Spanish, the French and the indians.
What is a Buffer Colony
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY The greastest, smartest, best looking and interesting high school students in all of the world, including Europe and the Continental United States.
Who are the West Bladen High School Students
500
A person or thing that regulates or watches over something.
What are Regulators
500
The finest, most gorgeous and smartest high school history teacher around who takes mercy on her students and cuts them a big break during special times when they are tired and worn out from being overworked.
Who is Mrs. Sharon Baxley
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