Daily Historical Figures
Founding Father, inventor, and diplomat
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The three sisters
What are corn, beans, and squash?
What is representation?
The supreme law of the United States
What is the Constitution?
Building the British burned during the War of 1812
What is the U.S. Capitol and/or White House?
A general in the Continental Army, the most famous traitor in American history
Who is Benedict Arnold?
War between France and Great Britain (for control of the Ohio River Valley) that ended with the Treaty of Paris
What is the French and Indian War?
Main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Country that sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States?
What is France?
What is Mammoth Cave?
Native American who helped the Pilgrims survive at Plymouth in the 1620s
Who is Squanto?
The first PERMANENT English settlement in America
What is Jamestown?
Where Washington and his troops spent the winter of 1777-1778
What is Valley Forge?
President that wanted to represent the "common folk" and believed the Constitution must be interpreted strictly (yet he bought the Louisiana Territory)
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Told European nations not to start new colonies in the Western Hemisphere
Who is James Monroe?
Founded Pennsylvania as a place for religious freedom for Quakers and others, believed in the fair treatment of Native Americans
Who is William Penn?
Great revival of the mid-1700s
What is the Great Awakening?
What is France?
This president issued the Neutrality Proclamation because he thought war would be too costly for the young nation
Who is George Washington?
Conflict between the United States, Great Britain, and Native Americans that ended with The Treaty of Ghent (a stalemate)
What is The War of 1812?
Known as the "Father of the Constitution," helped write the Federalist Papers, fourth president
Who is James Madison?
Five Great Lakes
What are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario
General that surrendered to Washington at Yorktown?
Who is Charles Cornwallis?
This one is worth 2000!!!! Sneaky Preamble Question. Recite the Preamble of the Constitution!!!!!!
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."