Early American History Made Ridiculously Simple!

Okay, our fireworks have only recently cooled off, but yet how many of us know what we're celebrating?  Here's a few quizzes to test your American history strength:

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How'd you do?  Well I personally love history, but am honestly not as good at it as my wife, the History Major.  Here's my abbreviated version of early American history.  Pilgrims got here in 1620 (others came before but pretty much died).  Over a hundred years later America was getting fed up with England and all the taxation without representation and had the Boston Tea Party in 1774.  George III did not take this very well.   Now for all you erudite historians I have included this historical documentary of said events:

After the Boston Tea Party, England stepped up it's taxes to punish the colonists, and put Boston under armed guard.  This of course only fueled the fire, and people in the colonies stopped thinking of themselves as colonists (British subjects) and more as Americans.  As things heated up the "shot that was heard around the world" took place in April 1775 in Lexington and Concorde (by some mystery dude).  The British were coming to take away possession of the arsenal that was there.  Paul Revere and William Dawes made their midnight ride to warn the colonists that the British were coming.  George Washington got in the mix and we had ourselves a war on.  (the Hessians were the Germans that England hired to fight on their side)

So we eventually we won the war which was nothing short of miraculous and a demonstration of God's hand.  England was the super power of the world and we were just a bunch of hillbillies, with the exception of a few remarkable men.  So then on July 4, 1776 the Continental Congress officially adopted and signed Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.  However, the war didn't officially end until 1783 (talk about a long war).  However, we still didn't have the Constitution until 1787.  James Madison is considered the "father of the Constitution" because he took the best notes and had the best attendance at the Constitutional Convention, however, many of the founding fathers were present and contributed.   Our Constitution was ratified in 1788 and George Washington became the first President.  

This country as foretold in the scriptures is the promised land.    It behooves each of us to remember this and hold dear to the ideals that so many valiantly sacrificed for.  I love America and everything it stands for and pray that we may have the same courage as our forefathers (and mothers) to maintain it.

(P.S. I'll give you a bonus point if you can tell me what river Washington is crossing here)