American history game

Noname · **Reply #740 on:** June 09, 2009, 02:06:14 AM

I think it was $40,000,000 to the French?

Nick22 · **Reply #741 on:** June 09, 2009, 02:31:48 AM

yes.. your turn..

Noname · **Reply #742 on:** June 09, 2009, 03:13:25 AM

What was the name of the man who supposedly bought Manhattan for $24 dollars, and who did he buy it for?

Malte279 · **Reply #743 on:** June 09, 2009, 03:39:02 AM

According to tradition it was Peter Minuit. He was working for the Dutch West India Company. New Amsterdam was founded on the spot but after the British took over (Peter Stuyvesand being the last Dutch governor) it was renamed New York.

Noname · **Reply #744 on:** June 09, 2009, 03:40:17 AM

Got it. Malte, it is now your turn.

And yes, they only say it was for "24 dollars", and the natives may not have intended to sell the land; it may only have been taken as if it were a gift by them...

Malte279 · **Reply #745 on:** June 09, 2009, 04:00:43 AM

When thinking of European colonies in America we usually think of English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and (if South America is included) Portuguese colonies. Please name two other powers which held colonies in North America (there is also a third, but I think they had colonies in the Caribbean only and not on the North American mainland).

Myrkin · **Reply #746 on:** June 09, 2009, 05:35:44 AM

I think that one of them was Russia. After all from it American bought Alaska, didn't they?

Malte279 · **Reply #747 on:** June 09, 2009, 05:40:26 AM

Aye, Russia was one of the countries I had in mind (last year I had to write a long paper on the Russian colonies in North America. They had an outpost as far south as San Francisco Bay and they even had a Fort on Hawaii before the Americans; though that Fort did not last long).
Give me one more colonial power (other than those already named) which held a colony in North America and the floor will be yours.

Nick22 · **Reply #748 on:** June 09, 2009, 11:51:28 AM

Germany?

Noname · **Reply #749 on:** June 09, 2009, 12:08:56 PM

Sweden. They were the ones who introduced the log cabin, which in turn came from their Finnish subjects. Germany and Italy weren't even united at the time.

Malte279 · **Reply #750 on:** June 09, 2009, 12:43:13 PM

Right Noname

There were German settlements (e.g. Germantown in Pennsylvania (and a number of other states

)) but they were just settlements of German imigrants within colonies of other countries. New Sweden (though it didn't last long) was a real colony and though it had no lasting political effect it may have contributed to the interest of Swedish in the US (many Swedish settled in the Middle West in particular). Denmark is another country barely known for colonies in the new world, but they did have one in the Caribbean. Anyway Russia and Sweden were the two I was looking for.
Your turn... Myrkin or Noname the one who has a good question ready first.

Noname · **Reply #751 on:** June 09, 2009, 01:14:25 PM

What historical road is part of U.S. Highway 40?

Nick22 · **Reply #752 on:** June 09, 2009, 09:08:44 PM

Route 66?

Noname · **Reply #753 on:** June 09, 2009, 09:13:32 PM

No, wrong one. Still, the key word is to think of a historical road... it predates the interstate.

Nick22 · **Reply #754 on:** June 09, 2009, 09:15:53 PM

does it include part of the Oregon Trial?

Noname · **Reply #755 on:** June 09, 2009, 09:21:25 PM

No. Think farther east. Try for an older, historical road that led into what was once called the "northwest territories." You know where I am describing, I am sure... it is NOT the pacific northwest because the country did not extend that far at the time.

Nick22 · **Reply #756 on:** June 09, 2009, 11:26:43 PM

That refers to the region that became the Midwest States. "The cumbeland Gap?

Noname · **Reply #757 on:** June 10, 2009, 02:26:21 PM

You are getting close... the Gap is not the road itself, but the Gap is on the road...

Nick22 · **Reply #758 on:** June 11, 2009, 12:49:28 AM

The National Road?

Noname · **Reply #759 on:** June 11, 2009, 01:21:15 AM

Got it! The National road was also known as the Cumberland road, and it stretched from Cumberland in Maryland all the way to Vandalia in Illinois.

Your turn, Nick!