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I'm one of the oldest founding fathers, and helped negotiate France's help in the American Revolution. Also, if you're looking for some advice on picking a mistress, I have some advice for you.....
Who is Benjamin Franklin
According to the Constitution, each state has this number of Senators in the US Senate.
What is two?
The first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired in this colony.
What is Massachusetts?
This group of religious dissenters established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
Who are the Puritans?
This was the only major disease that came from the new world to the Old World, and may have required European explorers to tell many lies to their wives when they returned home from the New World.
What is syphilis?
I was born in the Caribbean and only moved to the colonies a few years before the Revolutionary War began. I quickly rose to prominence and became the first US Secretary of Treasury
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The Constitution was ratified by the requisite number of states in this year.
What is 1788?
The turning point of the Revolutionary War came with the colonists' victory at this battle in September and October of 1777.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This was England's first attempt at establishing a colony in the new world. The colony's nickname gives you a pretty good idea as to how well things went for it.....
What is the Roanoke/"Lost" Colony.
This colony was the first to adopt large-scale plantation slavery
What is Carolina (South Carolina)?
I was born in Virginia in 1732, and despite a rather unfortunate surrender at Fort Necessity, I eventually became the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
This was the only of the original thirteen colonies not to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
What is Rhode Island?
The British took this city shortly before Washington's men camped at Valley forge in the winter of 1777, forcing the Continental Congress to retreat to York.
What is Philadelphia?
This rebellion took place in Virginia in 1676, thus demonstrating the power struggles that existed within the British colonies.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Remains of this handsome person were discovered on the bank of the Columbia River in 1996, sparking a controversy between scientists and the Umatilla Tribe.
Who is Kennewick Man?
My "Virginia Plan" provided a framework for what would become the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
The Fifth Amendment states that no private property can be taken for use by the government with out this.
What is just compensation?
The end to major military operations in the Revolutionary War came on October 19, 1781, when Colonial troops forced the British to surrender at this place.
What is Yorktown?
This colony was a gift given by King Charles II to his brother, James. James then gave a southern portion of the colony to his friends. It was a bad time for the Dutch.
What is New York?
This New World crop came to Europe as part of the Colombian Exchange and grew much better in European soil than it had in the Americas, thus allowing Europe's population to grow much faster than before.
What are potatoes?
I was a slave who chose to side with the British during the Revolutionary War in return for a promise that afterward I would be freed. Even though the British didn't win, I still managed to leave with the British troops and share my account of my life during the war.
Who is Boston King?
Each state has a number of votes in the Electoral College that is equal to this.
What are the total number of seats in Congress
On October 7, 1780, this group of soldiers from the Appalachian Mountains helped defeat a force of over 1,000 British loyalists at the Battle of King's Mountain. The battle lasted about an hour. Turns out it's a bad idea to threaten those East Tennessee boys.......
Who are the Overmountain Men?
This colony was founded by General James Oglethorpe, who sought to use it as a place for debtors to redeem themselves.
What is Georgia?
During this war, which took place in New England in the 1670s, Native American leaders were able to use superior weapon technology to score early victories against English colonists.
What is King Philip's War?