#6675, aired 2013-09-27 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $400: Samuel Higley minted what are known as "Higley pennies", reassuringly stamped "I am good" this metal copper |
#6675, aired 2013-09-27 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $800: In the 1744 Treaty of Lancaster, this 6-nation Indian league ceded lands in the Ohio River Valley to the colonies the Iroquois Nation |
#6675, aired 2013-09-27 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $1200: This colony's expansion west began after its Gov. Spotswood led a 1716 expedition into the Shenandoah Valley Virginia |
#6675, aired 2013-09-27 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $1600: In 1734 this New York newspaper publisher was busted for allegedly libeling Governor William Cosby John Peter Zenger |
#6675, aired 2013-09-27 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $2000: This man succeeded John Carver as governor of Plymouth Colony in 1621 & served for 31 of the next 35 years William Bradford |
#6607, aired 2013-05-14 | AMERICA AFTER THE REVOLUTION $2,000 (Daily Double): In this 1797 affair French agents demanded the U.S. loan France $10 million before our diplomats could meet Talleyrand the XYZ Affair |
#6228, aired 2011-10-19 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $200: In 1761 George Washington inherited this home from the widow of his brother Lawrence Mount Vernon |
#6228, aired 2011-10-19 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $400: In the 1540s Coronado & his men were amazed at the great number of this native fowl with "great hanging chins" the turkey |
#6228, aired 2011-10-19 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $600: In August 1664 this governor was forced to surrender New Netherland to the British (Peter) Stuyvesant |
#6228, aired 2011-10-19 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $800: This Virginia college was founded in 1693 to educate the youth in piety, "good letters and manners" (College of) William & Mary |
#6228, aired 2011-10-19 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $1,200 (Daily Double): It remained a separate colony for most of its 71 years until it was absorbed by Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691 the Plymouth Colony |
#5578, aired 2008-12-03 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $400: In 1586 this circumnavigator attacked & destroyed the Spanish fort at St. Augustine Drake |
#5578, aired 2008-12-03 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $800: In 1738, after 36 years of sharing a governor with New York, this colony got its own governor, Lewis Morris New Jersey |
#5578, aired 2008-12-03 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $1200: A 1765 British law required of colonists this "fractional" Act, housing British soldiers Quartering |
#5578, aired 2008-12-03 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $1600: An offshoot of the Salem colony, this city was founded on September 17, 1630 by John Winthrop & others Boston |
#5578, aired 2008-12-03 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $2000: In 1741 the Great Awakening reached a peak when he delivered the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Jonathan Edwards |
#951, aired 1988-10-24 | COLONIAL AMERICA $200: Bacon's Rebellion took place in Virginia 100 years before this, for which it has been called a dress rehearsal The Revolution |
#706, aired 1987-10-05 | COLONIAL AMERICA $800: Before the revolution, the Penn family also governed this small colony neighboring Pennsylvania Delaware |