Water, Water Everywhere
Fort Pitt was situated on the banks of this river.
What is the Ohio River?
This is the year in which the first Republican president was reelected.
What is 1864?
I am the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The "elastic clause" contains this phrase, which is the origin of its other nickname.
What is "necessary and proper?"
Ohio River Valley. 1754. France.
Who is George Washington?
These are the two cities at opposite ends of the Erie Canal.
What are Albany and Buffalo?
Delegates assembled this summer to restructure the rules.
What is 1787?
I am a young, revolutionary poet from Boston who defied popular expectations of those of my race and gender.
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?
This article of the US Constitution delineates the powers belonging to the legislature.
What is Article I?
Massachusetts. 1786. Taxation.
Who is Daniel Shays?
This waterway gives the state of Maryland its unique and messy shape.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
This is the year in which the midnight judges were appointed.
What is 1801?
I set the bar high for the Pilgrims in suggesting we create a "city upon a hill."
Who is John Winthrop?
Passed by Congress under the Articles of Confederation, the Land Ordinance of this year provided for the survey and sale of plots in this corner territory that would later be carved into these five states.
What is 1785 and the Northwest Territory and Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin?
Virginia. 1831. Slavery.
Who is Nat Turner.
The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers meet each other at the southernmost point in this state.
What is Illinois?
This was the span of time (decades, please) during which the thirteen British colonies were being formed.
What is 1607-1732?
I am the problem solver who advised we create a bicameral legislature to suit VA and NJ.
Who is Roger Sherman?
Farmers in western PA fought against this law in the early 1790's, posing an early challenge to the Washington administration.
What is the tax on whiskey?
New England. 1675. Colonialism.
Who is Metacom (King Philip)?
Zachary Taylor's troops angered the Mexican government when they crossed this river in order to station themselves at the southern border in 1846.
What is the Nueces River?
It took this long for the land known as Texas to turn from Spanish to American.
What is 24 years? (1821-1845)
I am the lead organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This was the 'umbrella' name of the five (later six) tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy, from which the framers of the US Constitution borrowed ideas about democratic governance.
Who are the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, and the Seneca (as well as the Tuscarora): the Haudenosaunee.
Rochester. 1847+. Slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?