Period 1
1491-1607
1491-1607
Who is Hernan Cortes?
He created the "Join or Die" cartoon.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The first Secretary of the Treasury
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This invention revolutionized the cotton industry.
What is the Cotton Gin?
The Moses of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This native tribe was known for their mounds in the Mississippi Valley.
Who are the Cahokia people?
What are the Federalist Papers?
The location of the first shot of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington?
She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
The first presidential Dark Horse.
Who is James K. Polk?
The system of trade between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
This legislative body was created in 1619.
What is the House of Burgesses?
A silversmith who warned Bostonians of the British arrival.
Who is Paul Revere?
She advocated for prison reform.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This controversial act overturned the Missouri Compromise.
The leader of the Aztecs at the time of Cortes's arrival.
Who is Montezuma?
Most enslaved Africans were brought to this region in the Americas.
What is the West Indies?
The first Supreme Court Chief Justice.
Who is John Jay?
The name of Thomas Jefferson's home.
What is Monticello?
This commodore sought to trade with Japan, by force is necessary.
Matthew C. Perry
The modern name for the place where Columbus first landed.
What are the Bahamas?
The governor of the Plymouth Colony.
Who is William Bradford?
The fort built by Washington in the French and Indian War.
What is Fort Necessity?
The president of the US Bank during the Bank War.
Who is Nicholas Biddle?
The political party that threw the election of 1844 in favor of the Democrats.
What is the Liberty Party?