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This intrepid soldier and explorer established a settlement in Quebec one year after the settlement of Jamestown and is known as the "Father of New France."
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
100
This leader of the Boston Massacre, who is described by modern contemporaries as a runaway "mulatto," was also one of the first to die in the massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
100
This British defeat was brought about by Washington's Army and the French navy under Admiral de Grasse and caused the collapse of the North's Tory government.
What is Yorktown?
100
This was the first state to ratify the consititution.
What is Delaware?
100
In an effort to appease the Southern States, this compromise was enacted, which allowed slaves to count as a portion of a vote in elections.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
200
This formidable French fort was strategically placed at the pivotal point where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers join to form the Ohio River, where modern day Pittsburgh is located.
What is Fort Duquesne?
200
This group of ardent spirits offered a generous coat of tar and feathers to tax collectors and violators of the nonimportation agreements and shouted, "Liberty, Property, and No Stamps."
Who were the Sons (and Daughters) of Liberty?
200
He was the author of an explanatory indictment, signed on July 4, 1776, that accused George III of establishing a military dictatorship. He later became president of the US.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
This frustrated foreign affairs secretary under the Articles of Confederation was also one of the three authors of the Federalist Papers and Secretary of State under George Washington.
Who is John Jay?
200
This Compromise appeased small and large states by establishing representation of the House of Representatives based on population and establishing equal representation of all states in the Senate.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
The fall of this Seven Years' War British leader occurred during a surprising attack from a small French and Indian guerrilla army. This defeat resulted in the offering of bounties for Indian scalps.
Who is Edward Braddock?
300
The evanescence of the monetary value of metallic money forced this group to print the "Continental," which was printed in great amounts until the expression "not worth a Continental" was coined.
What is the Continental Congress?
300
The aim of this declaration was to profess American loyalty to the crown by begging King George III to prevent further hostilities against colonists.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
300
This Virginia antifederalist leader believed that the Constitution spelled the end of liberty and equality in America. He is known for his famous quote, "Give me liberty, or give me death."
Who is Patrick Henry?
300
This failed revolt in 1786 by poor debtor famers raised fears of "mobocracy," anarchy, and disorder among wealthy conservatives, which demanded a need to reform the weak Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
400
This treaty was established after the Seven Years' War.
What is the Treaty of Utrecht?
400
This bored volunteer French officer, known as the French gamecock, served in the American army against the British in the Revolutionary War before he returned to France to partake in the French Revolution.
Who is Marquis de LaFayette?
400
This British general lost battles at Fort Ticonderoga and Saratoga in New York in his attempt to invade Albany.
Who is John Burgoyne?
400
This is the idea that American women had a special responsibility to cultivate "civic virtue" in their children.
What is republican motherhood?
400
The original intent of this meeting was to revise the Articles of Confederation, but with a lack of representation in eight of the thirteen colonies, the ultimate result of the meeting was the establishment of the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Annapolis Convention?
500
"This city of straights" was founded by Antoine Cadillac to thwart English settlers pushing into the Ohio Valley.
What is Detroit?
500
In November of 1775, royal governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, issued a proclamation to grant freedom to slaves in Virginia who joined his army. What was the name of Lord Dunmore's army of over 300 runaway slaves?
What is Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment?
500
This Mohawk chief led many Iroquois to fight with Britain against American revolutionaries. Sadly, the force of the Iroquois was not comparable to the force of the British army, and they were forced to sign the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, which forced the Iroquois to cede most of their land.
Who is Joseph Brant?
500
This legislation was passed in an alliance between Thomas Jefferson and the Baptists and disestablished the Anglican Church.
What is the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
500
In 1783, this exclusive military order was formed by a group of Continental Army officers, who aroused strong democratic opposition for their lordly pretentions.
What is the Society of the Cincinnati?