Week 18
Who made the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Name the three branches of the government
Judicial, Legislative, and Executive
Who was the first person to die in the American Revolution
Crispus Attucks
Who was agent 355
She was an agent that left no evidence to who she was and she would hide secret secret codes in pockets of clothes hanging on the clothes line.
what is the triangular trade
A trade between Africa, America, and England
What is numismatics
The study of paper and coin money
Who was our third president and wrote most of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Who entered the Revolutionary War dressed up as a man
Deborah Sampson
Where did the writing of the Declaration of Independence take place
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
What does La Amistad mean
Friendship
Who was the first secretary of state
Thomas Jefferson
Why are there three branches of the government
So nobody has to much power
Who invented the "Turtle"
David Bushnell
How many signers signed the Declaration of Independence
56 signers
How long had slavery been around before the Emancipation Proclamation was made?
250 years
How many people were killed from yellow fever in the Philadelphia area in the 1790s
About 4000
She had $7 U.S. dollars and sold tortillas
Romana Acosta Banuelos
What type of song is Yankee Doodle
Musical Satire
What does confiscate mean
To take away
what year did the king of Spain make his proposal to free slaves.
1693
How much is a half-eagle worth
5 dollars
How many representatives are in the in the house of representatives
435 representatives
Who wrote Yankee Doodle
Richard Shuckburgh
What was the purpose of the first continental congress
To request rights for the colonist from King George
Who was Benjamin Banneker
He was an astronomer, he invented irrigation systems, he found out what crop rotation was on farms, and he became a surveyor in the area that became Washington D.C.