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This Pennsylvania printer, inventor, statesman published his famous 1754 cartoon promoting an Albany Congress
Benjamin Franklin
This Virginia planter, surveyor, soldier was forced to surrender to French forces in the wilderness at Fort Necessity in 1755 marking the beginning of the 7 Years War
George Washington
This North American Indian Confederacy sided with the British during the French & Indian War
The League of Iroquois
The legendary James Fennimore Cooper novel about the French & Indian War in colonial New York was later the subject of several movies about heroism on the colonial frontier
Last of the Mohicans
This British law was meant to limit American Colonial shipping from transporting this syrupy raw sugar product from the Caribbean Islands to New England ports
Molasses Act
These British laws were meant to restrict a wide range of profitable colonial shipping ventures
Navigation Acts
This Massachusetts businessman was known as the “King of the Smugglers” for his many illegal enterprises
John Hancock
Because American Colonists were not allowed to have their own banks or print their own money, this Spanish money was often used for trade in the Caribbean by American Colonists along with British Pounds Shillings, and Pence
Dollars or Pieces of Eight
Americans were able to acquire needed supplies as long as British authorities did not enforce their rigid “Mother Country” rules for controlling their colonies known as
Mercantilism
In 1763 to please Indian Allies from the French & Indian War, the British declared lands west of the Appalachian Mountains and this boundary line were no longer available for colonial settlement
1763 Proclamation Line
To raise revenues to pay for British soldiers stationed in North America after the French & Indian War, the British Parliament passed this law to collect tax money levied on legal documents in the colonies
The Stamp Act
This 1767 series of taxes on a wide range of British goods including tea angered many American Colonists against the Prime Minister
The Townsend Acts
This British law would bring British Red Coat Soldiers into Boston with the right to stay and sleep in the homes of Bostonians
The Quartering Act
This series of laws were passed in response to the 1773 Boston Tea Party further angering colonists opposed to the growing mercantilist control
The Intolerable Acts
Fearing this conquistador was actually a returning god named Quetzalcoatl, this horse riding, armored, blunderbuss firing stranger was allowed by the Aztecs to enter their capital city.
Hernando Cortez
This conquistador arrived at exactly the right time to defeat Athualpa and his Incan Empire, as they were divided in a civil war.
Francisco Pizarro
The Conquistador Balboa is believed to be the first European to ever see this traveling East to West.
Pacific Ocean
This Native American uprising in 1580 in the old “southwest” was brutally avenged by Spanish authorities.
The Pueblo Revolt
The Treaty of Tordesilles in 1494, by Papal decree, divided the new lands across the Atlantic Ocean between the empires of Spain and her great maritime rival…
Portugal
Jamestown survived “starving time” with the help of local Native American Chief Powhatan and his teenage daughter…
Pocahontas
The Pilgrims overcame their struggles to adapt to New World farming with the help of this Native American friend
Squanto
These New England wars resulted in the annihilation and/or enslavement of the Native Americans who once had traded peacefully with the Pilgrims.
The Pequot Wars
These two colonies were established on the principle of religious tolerance.
Maryland and Rhode Island
This rebellion in 1675 resulted in a great shift from indentured servitude to an increased use of African chattel slavery in Virginia and the Southern Colonies.