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100

I was POTUS #1?

George Washington

100

This is where the first permanent English settlement was established in 1607?

Jamestown

100

20 colonists were executed as a result of these terrifying legal proceedings?

Salem Witch Trials

100

A person who promised to work for a period of time in exchange for safe passage to the New World?

indentured servant

100

*How many votes does a candidate need to win the presidency on election night?

*270

200

I was a Quaker and founded the colony of Pennsylvania?

William Penn

200

This colonial city was home to many of the important pre-revolutionary events?

Boston

200

This event included snowballs, British soldiers and 5 dead colonists?

Boston Massacre

200

Author, printer and inventor, this man helped edit the final copy of the D of I and may have discovered electricity?

Benjamin Franklin

200

Maryland and Virginia were both colonies from this region?

The South (Southern Colonies)

300

I was hanged for expressing my beliefs in religious freedom?

Mary Dyer

300

This is where the last major battle of the Revolutionary War was fought?

Yorktown

300

These laws were passed by English Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party?

Intolerable Acts

300

She fought for women's suffrage (the right to vote) and appears on an American $1-coin?

Susan B. Anthony

300

Name of the group of soldiers form Germany that were hired by King George III to fight against the Americans?

Hessians

400

I was a French general who came to the colonies to support the Americans in the fight for independence from Britain?

Lafayette

400

These colonies were home to Puritans, witch trials and the first town meetings?

New England Colonies

400

The Continental victory in this RW battle prompted this nation to support the American cause?

France

400

Patriot author who wrote Common Sense and The American Crisis?

Thomas Paine

400

This announcement stated where colonists could and could not LIVE!

Proclamation of 1763

500

I introduced tobacco to the colonies and later married Pocohantas?

John Rolfe

500

Infamous Revolutionary War camp where many Continental soldiers froze, became very ill or died?

Valley Forge

500

This revolt occurred because Virginia colonists were not pleased about the land that was being given to the Native Americans?

Bacon's Rebellion

500

U.S. foreign policy which stated that the Americas were off-limits to European colonization?

Monroe Doctrine

500

What was the name of the group who was assigned to write the Declaration of Independence?

Committee of Five