Native Peoples of Ohio
These early Ohio people traveled from place to place hunting large animals.
Answer: What are Paleo-Indians?
This explorer sailed west for Spain in 1492.
Answer: Who was Christopher Columbus?
This war was fought over control of North America and the Ohio Country.
Answer: What was the French and Indian War?
This event ended the French and Indian War in 1763.
Answer: What was the Treaty of Paris?
This British law taxed paper documents in the colonies.
Answer: What was the Stamp Act?
What is an atlatl?
This spear-throwing device was invented by Archaic peoples. Answer:
What is a caravel?
A ship designed for exploration that could sail into the wind. Answer:
The British and French competed for control of this important region.
Answer: What is the Ohio Country?
What was the death of much of the Native population?
European diseases caused this devastating result among Native Peoples.
Colonists protested Parliament's tea tax through this famous event.
Answer: What was the Boston Tea Party?
These Ohio cultures built thousands of mounds for ceremonies and burials.
Answer: What are the Adena and Hopewell cultures?
What is an astrolabe?
This instrument helped sailors determine latitude using stars and the sun. Answer:
Benjamin Franklin proposed this colonial plan in 1754.
Answer: What was the Albany Plan of Union?
The Ottoman Empire's control of trade routes encouraged Europeans to do this.
Answer: What is seek new routes to Asia?
Who were the Minutemen?
These citizen-soldiers answered the alarm at Lexington and Concord.
This famous Ohio earthwork is over 1,300 feet long.
Answer: What is Serpent Mound?
France hoped this explorer would find a Northwest Passage.
Answer: Who was Jacques Cartier?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
King George III issued this proclamation limiting westward settlement. Answer:
What is trade dependency?
Trading repeatedly for the same goods created this condition.
This battle became known as "the shot heard 'round the world."
Answer: What were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
What is matrilineal society?
This kinship system traces family heritage through the mother's family line.
This navigator and cartographer founded Quebec and explored the Great Lakes.
Answer: Who was Samuel de Champlain?
The British gained all land east of this river after the war.
Answer: What is the Mississippi River?
Control of this river system was considered control of the continent.
Answer: What is the Mississippi River?
What was the Olive Branch Petition?
Congress sent this final appeal to King George III to avoid war.