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The term “Clovis People” refers to:

The term conquistdores refers to:

As governor of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, Peter Stuyvesant surrendered to the English, eventually leading to the founding of this English colony:

Express the number 4.74 × 105 in standard notation.

The Boston Tea Party occurred in 1773 when

At the Battle of Saratoga (1777) American General Horatio Gates surrendered to British General John Burgoyne in a victory for the British that decimated the American Continental Army.

Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence which explained why colonies were breaking away from Great Britain.

In response to the Tea Act, the Daughters of Libery, a women’s patriot organization, led a sucessful boycott against buying or using tea.

 Patrick Henry, a planter and lawyer from Virgina, made a dramatic speech in the Virgian House of Burgesses in protest of this British act:

Seventeenth-century southern plantations