Quiz Bowl

John Rolfe

Who was the English husband of Pocahontas who gained wealth from growing tobacco?

Philadelphia

What is the "City of Brotherly Love" founded by Quakers?

Quakers

Which religious group founded the colony of Pennsylvania?

the king/queen

A royal colony is one ruled directly by whom?

Duke of York

Who was the proprietor of the former Dutch colony now called New York?

John Smith

Who was responsible for saving the Jamestown colony from starvation?

Middle

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware were part of the New England, Middle or Southern Colonies?

indentured servants

What is the term for poor people who agreed to work for a period of years to pay for their passage to North America?

Cortes

Who was the Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs in Mexico?

Roanoke

What area off the coast of present-day NC did England unsuccessfully attempt to plant a colony?

Verrazano

Who represented France and sailed to North America and explored from the Carolinas to Nova Scotia?

Magellan

Who was the Portuguese sailor whose crew completed the first voyage around the world?

Southern

Maryland, Virginia, NC, SC, and Georgia are part of the New England, Middle or Southern Colonies?

San Salvador

Which island did Columbus first land on in the Western Hemisphere?

De LaSalle

Who was the French explorer who sailed the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico and claimed land (Louisiana for France)?

Pocahontas

Who was the daughter of Indian Chief Powhatan who saved John Smith?

Virginia Company

What was the English trading company that started the Jamestown colony?

Christopher Columbus

Who was sent by Spain to find an all-water trade route to the East Indies?

House of Burgess

What was the elected government assembly in VA?

Puritans

Which religious group started Massachusetts Bay colony in Boston in 1630?

Separatists

Which group of Pilgrims started a colony at Plymouth in 1620?

Armada

What Spanish navy was defeated by England?

James Oglethorpe

Who founded a colony at Savannah, Georgia for English debtors and their families?

William Penn

Who was the Quaker proprietor of Pennsylvania?

Carolinas

Which colony named for King Charles II was begun by eight friends of the English king and later separated into two colonies?

Pizzaro

Who was the Spanish conquistador who defeated the Incas in Peru?

minutemen

Who were the members of the colonial militia who promised to be ready at a minute's notice?

Roger Williams

Who founded the colony Rhode Island at Providence?

Mayflower Compact

What document established self-government at Plymouth colony based on majority rule of male church members?

Jamestown

Which colony in Virginia was the first successful English colony in North America?

New England

Massachusetts, Connecticut Rhode Island, and New Hampshire were located in which section of the colonies: New England, Middle, or Southern?

French and Indian War

Which war ended in the English victory over France giving the English control of eastern North America?

Sam Adams

Who was the chief organizer of colonial protest against the Stamp Act and the Boston Tea Party?

Benedict Arnold

Who was the American general and traitor who failed to surrender West Point to the British?

Sugar Act

What was the British tax on foreign molasses entering the American colonies?

Battle of Saratoga

Which Patriot victory was considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War resulting in other countries assisting us?

Thomas Paine

Who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense urging colonial separation from Britain?

Townshend Acts

Which act maintained Britain's right to tax the colonists after the repeal of the Stamp Act?

Coercive Acts

Which British laws were to punish the colonists for staging the Boston Tea Party?

Loyalists

What was the name for the colonists who supported Britain during the Revolutionary War: also called Tories?

redcoats

What was the colonial nickname for British soldiers?

Boston Massacre

What was the event where British soldiers fired on a mob of colonists killing 5 on March 5, 1770?

King George III

Who was the King of England during the Revolutionary War?

Battle of Yorktown

Where were the British defeated in the final major fighting of the Revolutionary War?

Patriots

Who were the American colonists who supported the movement for independence?

Treaty of Paris

What was the ending negotiation document of the Revolutionary War to give America independence?

boycott

What is refusing the buy British goods as a means of protesting taxation called?

Revere, Dawes & Prescott

Who were the 3 people who rode on April 18, 1775 to warn the colonists northwest of Boston that "the British are coming"?

Battle of Bunker Hill

What battle was the British victory in Boston on June 17, 1775; the first battle of the Revolutionary War?

Sons of Liberty

What group was the secret colonial committee that protested against the Stamp Act?

Intolerable Acts

What was the colonists name for the Coercive Acts; British laws to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party?

Second Continental Congress

What was the meeting in Philadelphia that resulted in the Declaration of Independence?

First Continental Congress

What was the colonist meeting in Philadelphia to protest the intolerable Acts?

Lexington & Concord

Where did the first events of the Revolutionary War take place on April 19, 1775?

Boston Tea Party

What was the colonist reaction to the Tea Act; 90,000 pounds of tea dumped into Boston Harbor?

Proclamation of 1763

What was the document in which the British barred settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains?

Patrick Henry

Who was the colonial leader from Virginia who said, "Give me liberty or give me death!"?

Charles Cornwallis

Who was the British general defeated at Yorktown?

John Hancock

Who was the president of the Second Continental Congress who first signed the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson

Who penned most of the Declaration of Independence?

Hessians

Who were the German mercenary soldiers hired by the British?

Stamp Act

What is the British tax on printed materials such as newspapers and legal documents?

impeachment

What are formal charges if wrongdoing brought against a government official called?

3/5 Compromise

What was the agreement at the Constitutional Convention that counted only 60% of slaves for the purpose of legislative representation?

John Adams

Who was the first Vice President and second President of the U.S.?

separation of powers

What do the executive, legislative, and judicial branches provide that no single branch is too powerful?

Great Compromise

What was the name of the compromise plan approved at the Constitutional Convention that called for a two house legislature, with one based on population and the other equal representation?

change in order to improve

Define amend.

Cabinet

What is the group of appointed advisors to the president who are in charge of government departments?

Virginia Plan

What was the name of the proposal at the Constitutional Convention for a two-house legislature based on population?

New Jersey Plan

What was the name of the proposal at the Constitutional Convention for a one-house legislature with equal representation?

checks & balances

What is the system used to maintain the separation of powers?

George Washington

Who was the president of the Constitutional Convention?

Articles of Confederation

What is the term for the first unsuccessful first national government in the U.S.?

James Madison

Who was the "Father of the Constitution"?

Bill of Rights

What is the name of the first 10 Amendments of the Constitution?

Thomas Jefferson

Who was the third President of the U.S.?

49ers

What was the nickname for California gold seekers?

Louisiana Purchase

What was the land acquisition from France that doubled the size of the U.S.?

Manifest Destiny

What is the term for the belief that the U.S. should extend its territory to the Pacific Ocean?

John Wilkes Booth

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Fords Theater in Washington, D.C.?

Plessy v. Ferguson

What U.S. Supreme Court ruling upheld "separate but equal" segregation?

Emancipation Proclamation

What was Lincoln's executive order that freed the slaves in the Confederacy?

Andrew Johnson

Who became the U.S. President when Lincoln died?

Battle of Bull Run

Which Confederate victory in Virginia was the first battle of the Civil War?

KKK

Which organization of southern whites used violence to deny civil rights to African-Americans?

Reconstruction

What was the time period of rebuilding the Confederate states after the Civil War to unite with the nation is called what?

Richmond, Virginia

What was the capital of the Confederacy?

Battle of Vicksburg

Which battle was the Union victory resulting in northern control of the Mississippi River?

15th

Which amendment granted voting rights to African-American males?

Copperheads

What was the name for Northern Democrats who sympathized with the south during the Civil War?

13th

Which amendment abolished slavery everywhere in the U.S.?

14th

Which amendment granted full citizenship, civil rights, and equal protection under the law to African-Americans?

Radical Republicans

Who were the members of Congress who wanted to treat the former Confederate states harshly after the Civil War?

Appomattox Courthouse

Where did Lee surrender to Grant in VA to end the Civil War?

Carpetbaggers

Who were the Northern Republicans who moved south to take advantage of unsettled conditions during Reconstruction?

South Carolina

What southern state was the first to secede from the Union?

Harriet Tubman

Who was the most successful "conductor" on the Underground Railroad?

Harper's Ferry, VA

Where did abolitionist John Brown attempt to steal arms to start a slave insurrection?

Confederate States of America

What was the group of 11 southern states that seceded from the Union called?