The British government began charging new taxes in the American colonies to pay off debts for this.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
Secret organization of American patriots which originated in the pre-independence British North American colonies.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
100
The largest land acquisition from France
during Thomas Jefferson’s presidency (1803), doubling
the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
This event was when the Regulators in the North Carolina backcountry clashed with the governor's men.
What is the Battle of Alamance?
200
1) The British government started charging new taxes.
2) The colonies did not have any representation in Parliament.
3) The British government stopped letting the colonists hold jury trials.
What were three reasons the American colonists were angry with the British government?
200
One of the Sons of Liberty who warned the colonists that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
200
For the role he played in winning and securing American independence, he is generally recognized as one of the most important figures in all of U.S. history. He also is called Father of his Country.
Who is George Washington?
200
The expedition from 1804-1806 that gathered information about the land gained by the Louisiana Purchase and sought an overland route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
200
The reaction to the British government creating a single tea company to sell tea to the colonists. The colonists reacted by dressing up as Indians and dumping 300 chests of tea into the harbor. The British government punished Boston after this.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
This tax was on printed things such as books and newspapers.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
His nickname is the "Father of Middle Tennessee".
Who is James Robertson?
300
Document proclaiming the independence of the 13 British colonies in America, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
The discovery at Sutter's Mill increased the population of 14,000 in 1848 to almost 100,000 in 1850. It was also famous for encouraging the construction of wagons, roads and railroads going west.
What is the California Gold Rush?
300
The first meeting of colonial delegates to discuss problems with Great Britain. Delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies came to the meeting.
What is the First Continental Congress?
400
A way for colonists to protest new taxes. They refused to buy British goods.
Who is a boycott?
400
The son of Attakullakulla. He was angry with his father for giving Cherokee land to settlers.
Who is Dragging Canoe?
400
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. Known for "The Shot Heard Around The World."
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
400
Products could be moved more cheaply and much faster by this new method of land transportation in the 1830's.
What is the steam locomotive?
400
The British soldiers thought the colonists were hiding weapons in these two towns.
What are Lexington and Concord?
500
This new law said the colonists had to feed the British soldiers and allow them to stay in their homes.
What is quartering of troops?
500
A colonel who later became the first governor of Tennessee.
Who is John Sevier?
500
Slogan in the period 1763-1775 that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen colonies.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
500
The fort in San Antonio, Texas, which was the
site of a Mexican victory over supporters of Texan
independence in 1836.
What is the Alamo?
500
Wrote “Ain’t I a Woman?” in 1851 to the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention.