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Mexico to 1877 (Dorsett, Harvard, Anthony)
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U.S. Since 1783 (Kipke, Suto)
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In 1521 Hernando Cortes conquered this Aztec capital.
What is Tenochtitlan?
100
This battle led to the capture by the British of Canada's largest city in 1759 and eventually caused the French to lose control of the region.
What is the Battle of the Plains of Abraham or Battle of Quebec of 1759?
100
This explorer was commissioned by the East India Company to seek a westerly passage to the Kingdom of China , but instead discovered modern day New York.
Who is Henry Hudson?
100
Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner at fort McHenry in Baltimore during this war.
What is the War of 1812.
100
This new policy prevented British subjects from purchasing territory directly from Native Americans and also from settling west of the Appalachians.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
200
This individual became the first president of Mexico in the early 1820s.
Who is Guadalupe Victoria?
200
Formed in 1873, this policing system went on to became a national symbol of Canada.
Who are the Mounties, or the RCMP, or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?
200
These acts were Britain's main legislative response to the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive Acts?
200
This South Carolina political figure advised President James K. Polk to avoid war with Mexico.
Who was John C. Calhoun?
200
The Lakota moved to this bountiful region after they left their homelands in Minnesota in the early 1700s.
What are The Black Hills?
300
This 1821 treaty approved the plan to make Mexico an independent constitutional monarchy.
What is the Treaty of Cordoba?
300
This 1774 "intolerable" act granted religious protection to Catholics i the new British colonies of Canada, and it extended Quebec¹s boundaries westward into the Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley, thus aiding the support of the Quebecois for the British while angering American revolutionaries.
What is the Quebec Act of 1774?
300
During and after the American Revolution, this Pennsylvania city played a major role as a meeting place for the founding fathers.
What is Philadelphia?
300
This judicial figure participated in over 1,000 Supreme Court decisions in his 34 year career, and was a defining figure in shaping the court's role in the American legal system.
Who was John Marshall?
300
Between 1763 and 1783, Britain controlled these two territories after the Spanish and French ceded land.
What are East and West Florida?
400
This president of Mexico from 1861-1872 successfully fought off attempts by several European powers to install a European-controlled emperor in Mexico.
Who was Benito Juarez?
400
This sport had its origins among Canadian Indians such as the Huron, and for many decades was considered the national sport of Canada until replaced as a national symbol by Ice Hockey.
What is Lacrosse?
400
This treaty ended the Seven Years War, and also secured to Britain control of Quebec and Spanish Florida.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1763?
400
This woman, the sister of the Mrs. Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, is considered a leading architect of the Ideology of Domesticity and is sometimes called the "Martha Stewart of Antebellum America"
Who was Catharine Beecher?
400
This U.S. president led the US during the Mexican American War and gained much territory after the victory.
Who was James Polk?
500
Spoken by the Aztecs/Mexicas, this was the dominant language in Mexico in the mid-1350s and retained a strong presence throughout the colonial period, even as Spanish elements became incorporated into it.
What is the Nahuatl language.
500
This city was founded in 1793 and became the capital of Upper Canada in 1796. Under a later name it would become the leading city of modern-day Ontario province.
What is the City of York, or Toronto?
500
This lucrative commodity trade from Africa to the New world was dominated by the Dutch from 1650s until the early 1700’s.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
500
This agricultural staple commodity was a prime crop grown by slaves in Virginia, and could be grown in the Ohio River Valley, as well but was also factor in the NON-extension of slavery to the Northwest Territories in the 1780s.
What is Tobacco.
500
This Eastern European country searched Alaska for otter pelts and motivated the increased Spanish control of California.
What was Russia?