Exploration
On October 12, 1492, three small Spanish ships landed near an island in the Bahamas occupied by the Taino people. This man was the famous sea captain of this expedition.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This treaty ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The First Continental Congress met for this reason in Philadelphia in 1774.
What is to discuss the colonies' responses to the Intolerable Acts?
After its formation, the Confederacy seized federal forts in the South. The opening shots were fired at this southern fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
A navigator and explorer, Samuel de Champlain founded the trading post in 1608 for this country.
What is France?
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
The author of "Common Sense," this man also wrote "these are the times that try men's souls."
Who was Thomas Paine?
What are the Townsend Acts?
The Civil War's first major land battle occurred in 1861 at a muddy stream called Bull Run. This battle was known by two names. Northerners named battles after bodies of water while southerners named battles after land forms. This was the Southern name for the Battle of Bull Run.
What is the Battle of Manassas?
In 1682 with the help of the Quapaw Indians, Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle set out to explore the Mississippi River. He named the Mississippi River Valley this.
What is Louisiana?
These three crops were commonly grown into he colonies before being replaced by cotton following the invention of the cotton gin.
What are tobacco, rice, indigo?
By capturing Fort Ticonderoga, the Continental Army cut off support from this country.
What is Canada?
At this battle, Colonel Prescott, low on supplies, gave the order "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!" After holding off the British twice, the colonists were overran on the third British attack.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
After the South lost Richmond and Petersburg, General Ulysses S. Grant trapped Confederates during the Appomattox campaign in Virginia. The surrender of this Confederate general ended the Civil War.
Who was General Robert E. Lee?
In 1607 the Dutch explorer Henry Hudson began searching for this water route that connected the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific through North America.
What are slaves?
British General Cornwallis's servant, James Armistead, spied on behalf of the Americans. He gave Cornwallis false information, enabling Washington's troops and the French navy to defeat British troops in this the last battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
After acquiring massive debt due to this war, Parliament decided it was only fair for the colonists to pay off the debt since they were the ones who benefited the most from the war.
What was the French and Indian War?
New technology made the Civil War more deadly. Rifles shot further. The Gatling machine gun could fire hundreds of shots per minute. Battleships were covered with iron in order to withstand powerful cannons. These reinforced battleships are called ____________.
What are ironclads?
Within 30 years after Columbus' first meeting with the Taino people, Spain claimed most of the islands in the Caribbean Sea and much of present day Mexico due in part to this group of Spanish explorers who were searching for gold.
Who are the Conquistadors?
When this man married Chief Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas in 1614, it helped keep peace between Powhatan's people and the Jamestown settlers in Virginia.
Who was John Rolfe?
This first lady saved a portrait of George Washington, her parrot, and the Declaration of Independence when the British burned down the White House during the War of 1812.
Who was Dolly Madison?
When the Second Continental Congress met in 1775, they nominated this Virginian to be Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
This Union General practiced Total War, destroying everything in his path that could be used by the South. He captured and burned Atlanta, then carved a path of destruction on his way to capture Savannah.
Who was General Sherman?