European Exploration
This European explorer named Newfoundland and claimed it for England.
Who is John Cabot?
Founded as a religious refuge, this colony's name literally means "Penn's Forest."
What is Pennsylvania?
The Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as members of this tribe during the Boston Tea Party.
Who were the Mohawk?
This American leader received credit for the Battle of Saratoga.
Who is Horatio Gates?
This Virginian was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson.
This Portuguese explorer sailed the ocean blue in 1492. He sailed for Spain.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The residents of this colony had completely disappeared by 1590, leaving almost no trace of their previous existence.
What was Roanoke?
This decree, issued by King George III, forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
This American became famous for leading successful guerrilla raids against the British in the American South.
The Declaration of Independence explicitly listed these three "unalienable rights."
This Spanish conquistador slowly strangled to death the emperor of the Inca.
Who is Fransisco Pizzaro?
This native American assisted the Plymouth Rock colonists, leading to the first Thanksgiving.
This series of acts, also called the Intolerable Acts, were created as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
Coercive Acts
This was the final important battle of the American Revolutionary War.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
This early Constitution of the United States did not have an executive (President) or federal courts, and was very weak.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This Spanish conquistador resembled the god Quetzalcoatl. He used this to his advantage when conquering the Aztec.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
This Puritan leader sailed aboard the Arbella during the Great Migration.
Who is John Winthrop?
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere was intended to notify the minutemen of there two cities that the British were coming.
What were Lexington and Concord?
This treaty ended the Revolutionary War and acknowledged American independence?
This law, passed in 1787 under the Articles of Confederation, set up the territory north of the Ohio River, and prohibited slavery in the region.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This European was the first person to circumnavigate the Earth.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
This was the name of Manhattan Island before the English took it from the Dutch and it became New York.
What is New Amsterdam?
Prime Minister Grenville cited this doctrine in response to the colonists' cries of "no taxation without representation,"
What is virtual representation?
This British general became trapped in Virginia after the French victory at the Battle of the Chesapeake.
Who is Lord Cornwallis?
These famous words are the first fourteen of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.
What are "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."?