Who am I?
Wife of the French King, whose last words to her executioner included, Excusez-moi.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
The most profitable commodity out of all the cash crops from the Caribbean colonies
What is Sugar?
Exact date the Declaration of Independence was passed by the Continental Congress
When was July 4, 1776?
First British colony in the New World
Where is Jamestown?
Cause: British Redcoats were stationed in Boston to enforce taxation policies, escalating tensions that culminated in violent conflict and were later used as propaganda to galvanize colonial resistance.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Leader of the Haitian forces who was killed not long after being Governor-General for Life
Who is Toussaint L’Ouverture?
The European economic system that saw trade as a zero-sum game between nations
What is Mercantilism?
Year the French Revolution began and the Bill of Rights was written
When was 1789?
The river that separates New England from other colonies
What is the Hudson River?
Cause: A strategic collaboration between French naval forces and George Washington’s army trapped British General Cornwallis
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The first person killed in the Revolution (if the Rev. is dated to start at the Boston Massacre)
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Class of whites in Saint-Domingue (Haiti, before its revolution) who did not own big estates
What are the Petit Blancs?
Year the Seven Years War ended and Pontiac’s Rebellion began
When was 1763?
Where Benedict Arnold and Horatio Gates beat John Burgoyne’s Brits in upstate NY
Where is Saratoga?
Martin Luther posted 95 theses to the church in Wittenberg in 1517 over disagreements with the church.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
General of Patriot forces who took Cornwallis on a goose chase in Carolina backcountry
Daily Double
Who is Nathanael Greene?
An event seen as “combat of generosity” or when “the French nobility committed suicide”
What were the August Decrees?
Year of the Mayflower arriving in Massachusetts Bay
When was 1620?
Where “fishmonger” women marched with two cannons to confront the French monarchy
What is Versailles?
Political and religious tensions over King James II’s Catholicism and his attempts to centralize power alienated both Parliament and Protestant leaders.
What is the Glorious/Bloodless Revolution?
Young British Tory, who gave “no quarter” until defeated by Daniel Morgan at Cowpens
Who is Banastre Tarleton?
Name of the confederacy that joined five (later, six) nations together, known as the Iroquois
What is the Haudenosaunee?
Year the American Revolution officially ended, two years after Yorktown
When was 1783?
Where Ben Franklin was confronted/chastised by Parliament after the Boston Tea Party
What is The Royal Cockpit in Whitehall Palace in London, England?
After a string of defeats in 1776, Washington wanted to launch daring surprise attacks on Hessian and British forces during the winter, reviving the morale of the Continental Army and supporters
What are the Raids on Princeton and Trenton?