Colonial Days
1492
What year did Columbus cross the ocean blue?
Two events in Boston that spurred the Revolution.
What were the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party?
Commander in Chief of the Continental Army and the U.S.
Who was George Washington.
Nickname of the war.
What was Mr. Madison’s War?
Land that Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
Jamestown
What was the first permanent English colony in America
Lexington and Concord
What were the first battles of the Revolution?
Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Saved portrait of Washington.
Who was Dolly Madison?
Thank you Dewitt Clinton for this canal!
What is the Erie Canal?
Roanoke
What was the Lost Colony?
July 4, 1776
What was the date the Declaration of Independence was adopted?
Printer, inventor, post master, author and ambassador.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
Hero of the Battle of New Orleans
Who was Andrew Jackson?
In 1816 guides began leading people through this cave in Kentucky
What is Mammoth Cave?
Young Powhatan woman who saved John Smith‘s life
Who was Pocahontas.
Site of a rough winter for Washington’s men.
Hat was Valley Forge?
He said, “Give me liberty or give me death.”
Who was Patrick Henry?
Wrote the Star Spangled Banner.
Who was Francis Scott Key?
The largest of the Great Lakes.
What is Lake Superior?
Ship on which the Separatist Pilgrims sailed to Plymouth Colony
What was the Mayflower.
Where Cornwallis surrendered to Washington.
What was Yorktown.
Father of the Constitution
Who was James Madison?
War saw first use of this character representing U.S.
Who was Uncle Sam?
America’s oldest European city.
What is St. Augustine?