Q 01/05

Which future Kentucky trailblazer drove a supply wagon on the doomed British march toward Fort Duquesne in 1755?

A) Simon Kenton

B) Daniel Boone

C) Kit Carson

D) Davy Crockett

Answer · why

B) Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone served as a teamster and blacksmith with a North Carolina company. Stuck in the rear with the wagons, he took no part in the battle and f...

Q 02/05

Which newspaper publisher printed the Join, or Die cartoon of a severed snake as war with France loomed in 1754?

A) John Peter Zenger

B) Thomas Paine

C) Samuel Adams

D) Benjamin Franklin

Answer · why

D) Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin ran the woodcut in his Pennsylvania Gazette beside an editorial on the colonies' disunity. Its snake has only eight pieces: New Engl...

Q 03/05

Which Gulf Coast people descend from French-speaking settlers the British began deporting from Nova Scotia in 1755?

A) Cajuns

B) Isleños

C) Gullah

D) Huguenots

Answer · why

A) Cajuns

Cajuns get their name from a clipped Louisiana French form of the word Acadian. The British feared the settlers would aid France and scattered them in...

Q 04/05

Which classic novel, filmed in 1992 with Daniel Day-Lewis, follows two sisters through the siege of Fort William Henry?

A) Drums Along the Mohawk

B) The Witch of Blackbird Pond

C) The Last of the Mohicans

D) The Light in the Forest

Answer · why

C) The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans was James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 hit, subtitled A Narrative of 1757 for the year the fort fell to the French.

Q 05/05

Which future Pacific explorer helped chart the St. Lawrence River so a British fleet could reach Quebec in 1759?

A) John Byron

B) James Cook

C) George Vancouver

D) William Bligh

Answer · why

B) James Cook

James Cook was a Royal Navy ship's master at the time. He took soundings and marked shoals around Quebec, work that let the army cross the river in a ...