Native Tribes
This tribe was known as "The people of the swamp".
What are The Cayuga nation/tribe?
This native tribe aligned with the French during the French and Indian War.
Who are The Choctaw?
The first commander in chief was selected unanimously at this event.
What is The Second Continental Congress?
This is the # of chests of tea dumped into the Boston Harbor.
What is 342 chests?
What is the name of the group of colonists loyal to the British Crown?
What are Loyalists or Tories?
This tribe of people are known to live in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Denmark.
What are the Inuit?
The government used slash and burn tactics against this tribe to force them into surrendering many of their lands.
Who are The Navajo?
This is the year the colonies selected who would be their first U.S. President
What is 1778?
This meeting took place in Philadelphia and it decided upon the best route to take to boycott British goods.
What is The First Continental Congress?
This 1777 battle convinced the French to align with colonists in their fight for independence.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This tribe lived and had ceremonies in longhouses made of Elm bark. They used raised beadwork and incorporated porcupine quillwork into their clothing as well.
Who are The Cayuga?
This was the estimated number of native's who perished on the Trail of Tears due to starvation and exhaustion.
What is 15,000 Cherokee natives?
Where and when does the first inauguration take place?
What is April 30 1779 at Federal Hall in NYC.
This was Bostons population during the colonial period
What is 16,000 residents and about 4,000 red coats.
This formal document ended the war forcing recognition of the United States.
What is the Treaty of Paris in September 1783?
This tribe was matrilineal with children being born into the mother's clan. A child's maternal uncle had more of an influence on him than his own father who belonged to another clan. Women could divorce freely and would inherit belongings.
What is The Cherokee?
This group of natives were used as Code Talkers in WWII, approximately 400-500 natives volunteered to help convey coded messages.
Who are The Navajo?
These two helped Washington write his Farewell Address.
Who are Alexander Hamilton and James Madison?
This many people died at The Boston Massacre.
What is 5? 3 died instantly including a Black and Native American sailor, among another. Two others died two days later.
This French general helped the colonists defeat the British?
Who is Marquis de Lafayette? Who later went home to play a vital role in The French Revolution.
This is the name of the method of growing three complimentary crops together utilized by various native tribes in the Americas.
What are the "Three Sisters" method. Corne being the eldest sister that grows tall and sturdy, beans being the middle sister that pull nitrogens from the air and make the soil rich, they also help stabilize corn stalks against the wind. Lastly, the squash, the little sister, creates living multi and protects against weed as well as locking in moisture.
Tattooing was important to people in this culture often denoting where they were from, who their family was, their achievements, or position in the community. This among other cultural forms such as singing and dancing were banned in the 19th and 20th centuries by Christian missionaries.
Who are the Inuit?
What were some of the first president's warning's in their farewell address?
What are an emphasis on American unity, the danger of political factions, warning of foreign entanglements, importance of intelligence and morals of citizens?
What were The Intolerable Acts?
What are taxes to guarantee protections from natives, removing colonial charters, blocking town meetings, etc?
This 1781 battle resulted in the surrender from General Cornwallis.
What is The Battle of Yorktown?