Names
French Calvinist group
Who are the Huguenots?
Movement to reform the Catholic Church, launched by Martin Luther
What is the Protestant Reformation?
The beginning of the First Anglo-Powhatan War
When is 1610?
The Father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
The Constitution has this many amendments
What is 27?
A joint-stock company that owned the ships that landed near Chesapeake Bay before Jamestown was founded.
What is the Virginia Company?
What is the Edict of Nantes?
The founding of Jamestown. Double points if you get the month, triple if you get the day.
What is May 24th, 1607?
This state is home to the Gateway Arch.
What is Missouri?
This person wrote the Star-Spangled Banner
Who is Francis Scott Key?
This man scouted hundreds of miles along the shore of eastern Canada, looking for a route to Asia, eventually claiming Canada as land for the French
Who is Jacques Cartier?
The legal principle that declares the eldest son to inherit all family property/land.
What is primogeniture?
New Netherland is seized by the English
When is 1664?
This U.S. President was also a famous Hollywood actor.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This man was the husband (and some say captor) of Pocahontas.
Who is John Rolfe?
To curb Spanish encroachment into the Gulf of Mexico region, this man named the great interior basin, where the Mississippi met the Gulf, Louisiana
Who is Robert de La Salle?
A short-term partnership between multiple investors to fund a commercial enterprise
What is a joint-stock company?
The end of the Second Anglo-Powhatan War
When is 1646?
This U.S. company has made many types of tools, including, but not limited to, Post-It notes.
What is 3M?
The first woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice
Who is Sandra Day O'Conner?
The leader of the Haudenosaunee and the cofounder of the Iroquois
Who is Hiawatha?
A binding of 5 tribes, the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and the Senecas.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
England defeats the Spanish Armada off the coast of North Carolina
When is 1588?
This piece of legislation from 1932 separated commercial and investment banks.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
There are five main protections that come from the First Amendment. Name at least 3, all 5 for double
Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, Petition