Very Early Years
This person landed on an island in the Bahamas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This place is known as the City of Brotherly Love.
What is Philadelphia?
It was known as the shot heard round the world.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This city was our nation's first capital.
What is New York City?
These two men captained the expedition that explored the Louisiana Purchase.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This man sailed from Iceland to Greenland in 985.
Who is Erik the Red?
This person founded Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
This man led his troops in crossing the Delaware River in December of 1776.
Who is General George Washington?
This is the name of the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The name of the group that explored the Louisiana Purchase.
Who are the Corps of Discovery?
This man was elected as Governor of Plymouth 30 times.
Who is William Bradford?
This man searched for a water route to the Far East.
Who is Henry Hudson?
General Washington and his troops spent the long winter of 1777 in this place.
What is Valley Forge?
This man was the first president to live in the White House.
Who is John Adams?
This waterway was constructed between Buffalo and Albany, New York.
What is the Erie Canal?
John Carver was the first elected to this position.
What is the governor of Plymouth?
This is NOT the name of one of the thirteen American colonies.
Virginia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Delaware
What is Tennessee?
This man surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown.
In 1776 or 77, she sewed the first "stars and stripes".
Who is Betsy Ross?
This "Act" forced Native American tribes to move to land west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
True or False: Pocahontas never became a Christian.
False
"Give me liberty or give me death" was declared by this man at a meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Who is Patrick Henry?
This man has been called the Father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
George Washington first became a colonel during this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
Many Cherokee died along this "trail".
What is the Trail of Tears?