Lake Champlain

Constituted an official recognition of America’s independence and lent powerful military heft to the Patriot cause 4. Allies bound themselves to wage war until United States fully secured its freedom and until both agreed to terms with Britain 5. Led the American Revolutionary War to become a world war The Colonial War Becomes a Wider War A. Lexington 1778 1. England and France come to blows 2. Shot fired widened into a global conflagration 3. Spain and Holland join the fray…

Fort Ticonderoga was built to have great geographical placement. The fort has access to the Hudson River Valley, Canada, Lake Champlain, and Vermont. In 1770 a small militia was formed in order to protect the rights of local land-owners. As tensions began to grow between colonialism and the British, the green Mountain Boys joined the revolutionary cause. On May 10, 1775 while…

was in the States and then we flew out to Mexico City. Profile of New York New York Bay was discovered in 1542 by Giovanni da Verrazano. Henry Hudson then went up the river and claimed that area. Then northern New York was claimed by Samuel de Champlain in 1609. In 1642 a Dutch settlement was created at Fort Orange which is now called Albany which is the capital of New York now. The metropolis…

Unit 1 Vocab Exchange & Interactions (WXT,ENV) Corn - One of the many crops from the Americas that was brought over to Europe through the Columbian Exchange as a result of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the New World. Horses - A form of transportation and livestock from Europe that brought itself to the Americas via the Columbian Exchange. Horses heavily aided in the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Incas. However, the Aztecs and Incas would later utilize horses for transportation and…