American Explorers
First European to have set foot on continental North America, half a millennium before Christopher Columbus
Leif Erickson
Puritan settlement north of the previously established Plymouth Colony including portions of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
9 April 1775, the famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence and was known as the battle of what?
Battle of Lexington and Concord
A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives is known as what?
Democracy
“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
Thomas Paine
Who led a large expedition from what is now Mexico to present-day Kansas?
Francisco Coronado
Who is a key figure in the history of religious freedom in England's American colonies and the history of women in ministry, challenging the authority of the minister
Ann Hutchinson
A street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers was known as what?
Boston Massacre
The solution where both large and small states would be fairly represented by creating two houses of Congress was known as what?
The Great Compromise
“We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
Benjamin Franklin
Best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the northeastern United States.
Henry Hudson
Who was an English writer and religious thinker belonging to Quakers, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.
William Penn
A series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies is called what?
Townshend Act
At this meeting it was decided that the best solution to the young country's problems was to set aside the Articles of Confederation and write a new constitution.
Constitutional Convention
“If we desire peace, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.”
George Washington
Was a British-Canadian fur trader and an early explorer of the American West—the Great Basin, Oregon and northern California, and the Snake River country.
Peter Skene Ogden
Name three people that played an important role in the establishment of Plymouth Colony.
John Carver - wrote Mayflower compact
Myles Standish - Military Officer
William Bradford - Governor of Plymouth colony
What was the major cause of the American Revolutionary War?
Taxation without representation
Bill of Rights was created to protect rights the original citizens believed were naturally theirs, including: (name three)
Freedom of Religion. ...
Freedom of Speech, Press, Petition, and Assembly. ...
Privacy. ...
Due Process of Law. ...
Equality Before the Law.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal...”
-Thomas Jefferson- Declaration of Independence
Name two explorers who did an expedition to explore and survey the valley of the Great Salt Lake?
John Gunnison
Howard Standbury
Name three people that had an important role in the establishment of Jamestown.
John Smith
Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Name three things that were included with the stamp act?
legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers
Name three people that signed the US Constitution
Benjamin Franklin
James Madison
George Washington
“I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give death.”
Patrick Henry