All Categories
History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- the space between the opposing trenches was known as "no man's land"
- Tried to stop the Patriots at the Battle of Monmouth, but failed and his forces were contained by Washington for three years
- General who surrounded British troops and after two fierce battles, got 5,000 men to surrender to him in a battle called Saratoga
- Traitor who agreed to surrender West Point to the British but whose plan was revealed when the British spymaster John Andre was captured
- Most important victory was the British Capture of Quebec, which they won through going up a steep unguarded hill called the Plains of AbrahamMarked the beginning of the end of French rule in North America.
- Cost many lives in a bloody uprising and proved it would take thousands of British troops to protect the colonists from future Native American uprising
- Proved to be the turning point in America's War for Independence because it ended the British chances of isolating New England from the rest of the colonies
- Where the "shot heard round the world" was fired, changing the course of human history
- Spaniards founded this city in Californiafirst European settlement in California
- Established that 3/5s of a state's slave population would be counted for both taxation and representation
- Unrelated to the Coercive Acts, but considered Intolerable as well, and was seen as a threat to religious freedom and representative government in the colonies.Canceled the American colonies western land claims
- Attended by 55 delegates including George Washington (who presided over the Convention) and Benjamin Franklin and took place in Independence Hall
- Negotiated the Pinckney Treaty which settled the disputed boundary between Spanish West Florida and the United States
- Proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed to have the power to manage the Native Americans for trade, military, and other purposes; the plan was turned down but set an important precedent for colonial liberty
- boundary between Spanish and Portuguese territories in the New World/conflict between Spain and Portugal
- Known also as the French and Indian war (in America) and was fought against the French and the Native Americans
- A revival of Biblical Christianity, known in America as the "Great Awakening"
- Convened in Philadelphia in 1775 and John Hancock was elected president of Congress
- First chief justice of the Supreme Court, sent to negotiate a treaty with the British
- Patriot General known as the "Swamp Fox" harassed British troops, interfered with their communication lines and hid in swamps when pursued.