Colonies
This is the name of the first colony.
What is Virginia?
This state's two-letter abbreviation is MD and this is the capital.
What is Maryland, and the capital is Annapolis.
RI
What is Providence?
This is the cash crop of Jamestown.
What is tobacco?
This created financial stress on Britain which made England look to the colonies to pay more taxes and carry the heavier financial burden.
What is the French and Indian War (also known as the 7 years war)?
These 3 men were selected to go enlist the French to join the war with the Americans.
Who is Silas Deane who went in the spring, and Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee who joined him in the summer of 76.
This is a "debtor's colony" because many of the first settlers were prisoners in England due to debt.
Where is Georgia?
This state's capital is Augusta.
NY
What is Albany?
They developed a written agreement before they went ashore.
What is the Pilgrims who drew up the Mayflower Compact?
These three characteristics caused the colonies to be more frustrated with the English Government and King George.
What is 1)that King George was young and inexperienced in leading his country and 2)the Parliament was incompetent in knowing how to lead the colonies from a distance, therefore the colonies regularly did not receive responses to their problems thereby feeling unprotected by the "Mother Country."
He was chosen by General Washington to be commander of the Southern Army and considered only second to Washington in terms of his success.
Who is Nathanael Greene?
He is credited with establishing the colony of Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
This state's capital is Austin.
Where is Texas?
PA
What is Harrisburg?
This colony was established as a refuge for Catholics by this man.
What is Maryland was established by Lord Baltimore?
This was a stamp that required a tax to all papers such as bill of sale, newspapers and advertisements.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765.
This Scottish soldier is called the "Father of the American Navy"- when his final ship was going down and the British asked him to surrender, he bravely said, " I have not begun to fight!"
Who is John Paul Jones, a hero to Americans, but a pirate to the English?
These "girls" were part of the original 13 colonies.
Who are North and South Carolina, Maryland, Georgia, and Virginia?
The capital of this state is Columbia.
What is South Carolina?
This is the two-letter abbreviation for this state and this is its capital.
What is North Carolina where the capital is Raleigh?
"No drunkenness, no gambling, no idleness." This was a code developed by these first settlers in the colonies.
What are the Puritans?
This is when the Boston Massacre occurred and the result (how many killed and what caused the first shot?)
This event took place in 1770 when a mob of colonists started throwing snowballs at British soldiers, taunting them until a solder fired a shot with 4 civilians being killed. This caused the colonists to spread harsh propaganda against the British.
Who is Lafayette?
This is the colony that Sir Walter Raleigh founded.
What is Roanoke?
The capital of this state is Juneau.
What is Alaska?
This is the capital of NJ.
What is Trenton?
King George approved the settling of Georgia because he wanted it to act as a barrier against this country's expansion.
What is Spain because they had settled most of Florida already?
This group had a monopoly on tea granted them by the English government which caused this group to plot an act to send a message to England: "taxation without representation is tyranny!"
What is the East India Company had the monopoly but the Sons of Liberty plotted to throw all the tea overboard in the famous Boston Tea Party to send a message to England?
He was the leading British General up against George Washington but ended up surrendering at Yorktown which ended the Revolutionary War.
Who is Lord Cornwallis?
These "new" colonies were part of the original 13.
What is New York, New Jersey, and New Hampshire?
The capital of this state is Baton Rouge.
What is Louisiana?
This is the capital of New Hampshire.
What is Concord?
Originally named New Netherlands by the Dutch, this colony had an expanding fur trade.
What is New York?
This was the location and year of the first bloodshed of the American War for Independence.
What is the first blood was shed in Lexington, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775.
He was the American general over the Northern Army appointed by G. Washington.
Roger Williams founded this colony specifically for the purpose of granting "religious freedom" to all people.
What is Rhode Island?
The capital of this state is Montgomery.
What is Alabama?
The capital of this state is Little Rock.
What is Arkansas?
This colony is named after the founder's hometown in England and was a settlement for fishing and trading.
What is New Hampshire?
These were the 3 goals of the First Continental Congress.
What is ward off parliamentary wrath, assert colonial rights, and restore positive imperial relations?
This was the treaty that drew up the agreement between the British and the Americans to end the war.
What is the Treaty of Paris.
King Charles II of England gave a charter of permission to establish this colony.
What is the Carolinas (Latin for Charles)?
This state has a two letter abbreviation of ME.
What is Maine?
This the capital of Texas
What is Austin?
This colony was named after a queen.
What is Virginia?
These were the 5 authors of the Declaration of Independence.
Who are Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston?
This is where George Washington and his men faced the most difficult conditions as soldiers.
Where is Valley Forge?
This colony was founded by William Penn and Peter Minuit and it was originally called New Sweden.
What is Delaware?
This state is the largest in the US.
What is Alaska?
This is the capital of Kentucky.
What is Frankfort?
This colony was named after the King's 2nd wife.
What is Maryland which was named after Maria, King Charles I wife?
This was the first real stand up battle between the New England troops and British Redcoats.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill where the Americans had a strategic victory even though they lost posession of the hill?
This was an American General who switched to the British side causing his name to always be associated with being a "traitor."
Who is Benedict Arnold?
This was why the colonists could not seem to get out of debt especially the shopkeepers and sea merchants.
What is England would not allow them to print English money or use American money to trade with them. They were also not allowed to trade with any other country.
These are the 5 Great Lakes.
What is Lake Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
This is the capital of Minnesota.
What is St. Paul?
This event caused the French to enter the War for Independence with the Colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga where the British surrendered?
These were the two most challenging aspects for each side during the War.
What is for the British it was size and location (bringing troops so far and having to bring supplies) and for the Americans it was the poor conditions and training of the colonial soldier (low pay, low supplies, not professionally trained, and often young/idealistic men)?
President of the Second Continental Congress.
Who is John Hancock?