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1492 - 1790

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Finance Christopher Columbus's trip   Spain's King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella   where Columbus lands   San Salvador Island   Current day name of San Salvadore Island   Bahamas  
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discovers Newfoundland   Cabot   Who Cabot sailed for   Henry VII   who names America   German mapmaker Waldseemuller  
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who America was named for   Amerigo Vespucci   searches for through Florida for the Fountain of Youth   Ponce de Leon   governor or Puerto Rico from 1509 - 1512   Ponce de Leon  
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discovers the Pacific   de Balboa   leads expedition that circumnavigates the globe   Magellan   killed by natives in the Philippines   Magellan  
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completes Magellan's trip to circumnavigate the globe   del Cano   discovers New York Harbor   de Verrazano   commissioned de Verrazano's expedition   Francis I of France  
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expores the St. Larence River to modern day sites of Quebec and Montreal   Cartier   the country Cartier sails for   France   explores the American Southwest seeking the Seven Cities of Cibola   de Coronado  
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first European in present-day Arizona and New Mexico   de Coronado   first to see the Grand Canyon   de Coronado's men   explores Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma   DeSoto  
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first European to see the Mississippi River   DeSoto   dies on his expedition and is buried in the Mississippi River   DeSoto   establishes St. Augustine as the first permanent settlement in what is now the present day Florida   de Aviles  
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make up the Iroquois Confederation   Oneida, Cayuga, Mohawk, Onondaga and Seneca tribes   where the Iroquois Confederation is based   upstate New York   first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe   Sir Francis Drake  
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Drake's ship   The Golden Hind   first English settement is established where   Roanoke Island   financed the first English settlement   Sir Walter Raleigh  
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first child born of English parents in the New World   Virginia Dare   names the whole East Coast Virginia   Raleigh   Who Raleigh named Virginia after   Queen Elizabeth I "the Virgin Queen"  
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who discovered the Roanoke settlement gone   Supply ships   only clue to Roanoke settlements whereabouts   "Croatan" carved on a tree   first permanent English settlement   Jamestown, VA  
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becomes de facto leader of Jamestown   John Smith   explores much of the Chesapeake Bay region   John Smith   claims to have been captured by Indians under Powhatan and saved from death by the Indian princess Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan   John Smith  
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publishes A True Relation of Virginia in England   John Smith   founds Quebec   de Champlain   explored teh St. Lawrence Seaway   de Champlain  
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oldest present day state capital   Santa Fe   founded Santa Fe   de Peralta   explored teh river and bay naved for him   Henry Hudson  
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is cast adrift in Hudson Bay in a lifeboat by his mutinous crew   Henry Hudson   marries first tobacco grower John Rolfe   Pocahontas   moves to England and dies at age 23   Pocahontas  
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bring first slaves to Jamestown   Dutch traders   first representative body in New World convenes at Jamestown - who voted   Virginia Planters   where did they vote   House of Burgesses  
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first political document in New World is signed by whom   Pilgrims on the Mayflower   name of the first political document   Mayflower Compact   Pilgrims land here   Cape Cod  
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Pilgrims eventually settle here   Plymouth   teaches Pilgrimes how to fish, plant crops and find other sources of food   Squanto - an English speaking Indian   in charge of militia   Miles Standish  
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governor   William Bradford   colonists celebrated this in Autumn   a Thanksgiving feast   founded as Peter Minuit buys Manhattan Island from Indians for $24 in wampum   Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam (New York)  
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governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony   Winthrop   granted charter for Maryland colony to Lord Baltimore   King Charles I   brought colonists to Maryland   "Ark and the Dove"  
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founded Providence and the colony of Rhode Island   Williams   banished by Puritans from Massachusetts Bay   Williams   first college in America in 1638   Harvard College  
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banished as heretic from Massachusetts Bay   Hutchinson   founded Portsmouth RI   Hutchinson   settled Delaware as New Sweden   Swedes  
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who controled New Sweden   English   first written constitiution in teh colonies   The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut   becomes director eneral of teh New Netherland colony and remained in charge until surrender to English, 1664   Stuyvesant  
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what disability did Stuyvesant have   One leg   published "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America"   Bradstreet   journeyed down the MIssissippr River, proving teh existence of water passageway from teh St. Lawrence to Gulf of Mexico   Marquette and Joliet  
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thousands were killed in this war between 5 Indian tribes and New Englanders   King Philip's War   lead a rebellion agains colonial rule in Virginia, torching Jamestown   Bacon   claims the Americqan interior for France and called it Louisiana   de LaSalle  
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college founded in Williamsburg, VA   William and Mary   nations second oldest college   William and Mary   witchcraft hysteria began here   Salem, Massachussetts  
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how many people were executed   nearly 20   these incidents became the basis for Arthur Miller's work   The Crucible   moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg   Capital of Virginia  
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college founded in New Haven, CT   Yale   nations 3rd oldest college   Yale   established a French outpost at present day Detroit   Cadillac  
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this industry began on Nantucket, off Massachussetts coast   Whaling   founds French city of New Orleans   LeMoyne   pirate captured and executed by English   Blackbeard  
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Blackbeard's real name   Edward Teach   Benjamin Franklin's pseudonym   Richard Saunders   wrote Poor Richard's Almanac in the same year that George Washington is born   Saunders  
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leads 150 debtors in founding Georgia   Oglethorpe   last of 13 original colonies   Georgia   acquited on libel charges brought by the colonial governor of NY   Zenger  
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established the concept of freedom of free press   Zenger's acquittal   helps start teh religious awakening in New World with sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"   Edwards   Puritan Preacher   Edwards  
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his famous experiment in a thunderstorm proves the existence of electricity in lightning   Franklin   here, colonists approve a tentative plan for union proposed by Benjamin Franklin   At Albany Congress   dies in attack at Fort Duquesne   Braddock  
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first major battle in the French and Indian War   Battle at Fort Duquesne   Led troops against Braddock   Washington   French and Indian War aka   Seven Years War in Europe  
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published "The Way to Wealth" a pamphlet of pity sayings previously published over 25 years in Poor Richard's Almanac   Franklin   defeated in Battle of Quebec   de Montcalm   defeated Montcalm   Wolfe  
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die in Battle of Quebec   Montcalm and Wolfe   head Rogers Rangers in victory at Detroit   Rogers   ends French and Indian War   Treaty of Paris  
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passes the Stamp Act   England   put a tax on newspapers and legal documents   Stamp Act   passed the Quartering Act   England  
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repealed the year after it is passed   Stamp Act   enacted to replace revenue lost by repeal of Stamp Act   Townshend Act   set up in Boston as a secret societ opposed to English taxation   Sons of Liberty  
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complete survey of southern Pennsylvania/northern Maryland border   Mason and Dixon   southern Pennsylvania/northern Maryland border   Mason Dixon Line   first Spanish misson in California   San Diego  
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five colonists are killed when they and their fellow colonists are fired upon by English troops in what becomes   Boston Massacre   Killed in the Boston Massacre   Crispus Attucks   publishes "Poems on Various Subjects"   Wheatley  
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Black servant who is a writer   Wheatley   colonists dressed as Indians protest an English tax on tea by boarding teh Eleanor, the Dartmouth and the Beaver and throwing tea into the harbor   Boston Tea Party   Parliament passes this in response to Boston Tea Party   Intolerable Acts  
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First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia's Carpenter's Hall in response to this   Intolerable Acts   blazes the Wilderness Trail   Boone   founds Boonesboro, KY   Boone  
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"Give me liberty or give me death"   Henry   Where Patrick Henry gives his famous speech   before teh Virginia House of Burgesses   battles that start the American Revolution before which Paul Revere takes his famous ride   Lexington and Concord  
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Basis for Longfellow's poem and Grant Wood painting   Paul Revere's ride   captured English arsenal at Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain   Ethan Allen and Green Mountain Boys, along with Benedict Arnold   meets and authorizes the Continental Army and names George Washington Commander in Chief   Second Continental Congress  
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sent to King George III in an attempt to stop hostilities   The Olive Branch Petition   won the battle of Bunker Hill in Boston   English   battle fought on Breed's Hill   battle of Bunker Hill  
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publishes "Common Sense" and "American Crisis" pamplets urging separation from England   Paine   where Declaration of Independence was signed   Philadelphia   how many signed Declaration of Independence   56 including John Hancock  
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how many state ratified the Constitution   11 of 13   Father of the Constitution   Madison   wrote "The Federalist Papers"   Hamilton, Jay and Madison  
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name Hamilton, Jay and Madison wrote The Federalist Papers under   Publius   Bill of Rights proposed in this year   1788   where Washington was inaugurated   New York  
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First Vice President   Adams   First Secretary of the Treasury   Hamilton   First Secreatry of War   Knox  
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First Attorney General   Randolph   First Secretary of State   Jefferson   Frist Chief Justice   Jay  
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becomes and Admiral in the Russian navy of Catherine the Great   John Paul Jones   appoints John Carroll first American Catholic bishop   Pope Pius VI   opens first successful cotton mill   Slater  
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where was the first cotton mill   Pawtucket, RI   created to provide new site for national capital   District of Columbia   (blank)   (blank)  
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