This large, reptilian shaped effigy earthwork is located in Adams County, Ohio.
What is the Serpent Mound?
100
Native Ohioans who lived near rivers or lakes dug out tulip or poplar trees to make these.
What are canoes?
100
Native Ohioans did this with furs for wool blankets, gun and tools brought by European settlers.
What is traded?
100
Many Native Americans sided with this group in the hopes of keeping swarms of settlers out of the Ohio Territory.
What are the French?
100
John Rogers Clark won many battles for the colonists in this area of land north of the Ohio and East of the Mississippi Rivers.
What is the NW Territory?
200
A scientist who excavates significant historical sites to learn about their inhabitants.
What is an archaeologist?
200
The Native Ohioans believe that this resource, the thing so important to foreigners, could not be owned.
What is land?
200
These were established by both the French and the British in hopes of doing business with the Native Ohioans.
What are trading posts?
200
This war was a part of the larger world-wide conflict between France and England.
What is The Seven Years' War?
200
Simon Girty became known as a traitor due in part because he stood by and watched this happen to William Crawford in retaliation for the massacre against peaceful Ohio Indians.
What is being burned at the stake?
(or being tortured or executed)
300
People who "dig" history can view these tangible clues about life in Ohio's past on display at the Ohio Historical Center.
What are artifacts?
300
These land agreements negotiated by the American government eventually forced all the Native Ohioan west to reservations.
What are treaties?
300
The pelt of this animal, trapped nearly to extinction in Europe, was especially prized, used to make hats for wealthy Europeans.
What is a beaver?
300
In 1763 this document was drafted and signed to end the war.
What is The Treaty of Paris?
300
The year this Treaty of Paris was signed, formally ending the American Revolutionary War.
What is 1783?
400
The general name given to the people group inhabiting Ohio during this era.
What are the mound builders?
400
The historic time period is so called because of the presence of this.
What is a written record?
400
French explorer Joseph Pierre Celoron de Bienville buried these along the Ohio River claiming the land on both sides of it for France.
What are lead plates?
400
In addition to raising taxes, after they won the war, England told the colonists they could not settle west of here.
What are The Appalachian Mts?
400
The only fort constructed in the Ohio country during the Revolutionary War.
What is (Fort) Laurens?
500
The Miamisburg Mound is one of the two largest of this kind of geometrically shaped burial mound in North America.
What is cone or conical?
500
The stone out of which many Native American tools were formed.
What is flint?
500
The name of the region roughly west of the Appalachian mountains and North of the Ohio River prior to the American Revolution, it included modern day Ohio, eastern Indiana, western Pennsylvania and NW WVA.
What is the Ohio Country?
500
The French handed Major George Washington the first defeat of the war at the battle taking place at this site.
What is Fort Necessity?
500
This Lenape settlement started by Moravian missionaries David Zeisberger and John Heckwelder was the site of a massacre in 1782.