This was created by the Spanish to control and regulate American Indian labor and behavior during the colonization of the Americas.
What was the encomienda system?
100
This was a self-government assembly authorized by Virginia Company in 1619. It established the precedent of assemblage.
What is the House of Burgesses?
100
The policy used by the British until the French and Indian War that gave the colonists more freedom.
What is salutary neglect?
100
This person became President in the first peaceful change of political power.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
100
The first character created by Walt Disney before he created the Disney Company.
Who is Oswald The Lucky Rabbit?
200
His expedition proved the Earth could be circled by sea.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
200
They received a charter from King James I for a settlement in the New World in return for gold and the promise of the discovery of a passage to the Indies.
What is the Virginia Company of London?
200
This event was caused by the passing and enforcement of the Intolerable Acts. The British responded to this by refusing to remove their ship from the harbor until all the goods that had been damaged were paid for.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
This Supreme Court Case created judiciary review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
200
The longest English word containing only one vowel.
What is "strengths"?
300
A group of 5 Native American nations who lived in the Ohio Valley area.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
300
A war between the colonists and these people ended with the marriage of John Rolfe.
Who are the Powhatans?
300
This person was the first to die in the name of American Independence.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
300
This person led a slave revolt in Haiti which later helped America gain the Louisiana territory in the Louisiana Purchase.
Who was Toussaint L’overture?
300
The weight (in kg) of the first computer. (correct if within +/- 1,000 of the actual answer)
What is 27,000 kg?
400
The arrival of horses and wheat to North America are examples of this historical event that shaped North American life for centuries to come.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
This protected the Catholic minority in Maryland by guaranteeing religious toleration to all Christians
What is the Act of Toleration?
400
This is an offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George lll.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
400
The act in which men are captured and forced into [British] naval service. This was an important cause of the War of 1812.
What is impressment?
400
These two US states have the same state animal since 1998.
What are Alaska and Maine?
500
The mistaken belief that the conquistadors brought only misery to the New World, when in fact they also laid the foundations for nations
What is the black legend?
500
This practice in England made many people homeless and caused a large immigration of poor English people to America.
What is enclosure?
500
This group created a statement of grievances and agreed to stop all trade with Britain.
What is the First Continental Congress?
500
The Compromise of 1820 created this line which separated the United States into free and slave populations.
What is the 36,30?
500
Oscar the Grinch was this color in Season One of 'Sesame Street'.