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#58 โ€” A: Colonial Period and Independence

What is one reason colonists came to America?

  • freedom
  • political liberty
  • religious freedom
  • economic opportunity
  • practice their religion
  • escape persecution
#59 โ€” A: Colonial Period and Independence

Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

  • American Indians
  • Native Americans
#60 โ€” A: Colonial Period and Independence

What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

  • Africans
  • people from Africa
#61 โ€” A: Colonial Period and Independence

Why did the colonists fight the British?

  • because of high taxes (taxation without representation)
  • because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering)
  • because they didn't have self-government
#62 โ€” A: Colonial Period and Independence

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

  • (Thomas) Jefferson
#63 โ€” A: Colonial Period and Independence

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

  • July 4, 1776
#64 โ€” A: Colonial Period and Independence

There were 13 original states. Name three.

  • New Hampshire
  • Massachusetts
  • Rhode Island
  • Connecticut
  • New York
  • New Jersey
  • Pennsylvania
  • Delaware
  • Maryland
  • Virginia
  • North Carolina
  • South Carolina
  • Georgia
#65 โ€” A: Colonial Period and Independence

What happened at the Constitutional Convention?

  • The Constitution was written.
  • The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
#66 โ€” A: Colonial Period and Independence

When was the Constitution written?

  • 1787
#67 โ€” A: Colonial Period and Independence

The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.

  • (James) Madison
  • (Alexander) Hamilton
  • (John) Jay
  • Publius
#68 โ€” A: Colonial Period and Independence

What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

  • U.S. diplomat
  • oldest member of the Constitutional Convention
  • first Postmaster General of the United States
  • writer of "Poor Richard's Almanac"
  • started the first free libraries
#69 โ€” A: Colonial Period and Independence

Who is the "Father of Our Country"?

  • (George) Washington
#70 โ€” A: Colonial Period and Independenceโญ 65/20

Who was the first President?

  • (George) Washington
#71 โ€” B: 1800s

What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?

  • the Louisiana Territory
  • Louisiana
#72 โ€” B: 1800s

Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.

  • War of 1812
  • Mexican-American War
  • Civil War
  • Spanish-American War
#73 โ€” B: 1800s

Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.

  • the Civil War
  • the War between the States
#74 โ€” B: 1800s

Name one problem that led to the Civil War.

  • slavery
  • economic reasons
  • states' rights
#75 โ€” B: 1800sโญ 65/20

What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?

  • freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation)
  • saved (or preserved) the Union
  • led the United States during the Civil War
#76 โ€” B: 1800s

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

  • freed the slaves
  • freed slaves in the Confederacy
  • freed slaves in the Confederate states
  • freed slaves in most Southern states
#77 โ€” B: 1800s

What did Susan B. Anthony do?

  • fought for women's rights
  • fought for civil rights
#78 โ€” C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Informationโญ 65/20

Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.

  • World War I
  • World War II
  • Korean War
  • Vietnam War
  • (Persian) Gulf War
#79 โ€” C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Who was President during World War I?

  • (Woodrow) Wilson
#80 โ€” C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?

  • (Franklin) Roosevelt
#81 โ€” C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Who did the United States fight in World War II?

  • Japan, Germany, and Italy
#82 โ€” C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?

  • World War II
#83 โ€” C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?

  • Communism
#84 โ€” C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

What movement tried to end racial discrimination?

  • civil rights (movement)
#85 โ€” C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Informationโญ 65/20

What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?

  • fought for civil rights
  • worked for equality for all Americans
#86 โ€” C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?

  • Terrorists attacked the United States.
#87 โ€” C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.

  • Cherokee
  • Navajo
  • Sioux
  • Chippewa
  • Choctaw
  • Pueblo
  • Apache
  • Iroquois
  • Creek
  • Blackfeet
  • Seminole
  • Cheyenne
  • Arawak
  • Shawnee
  • Mohegan
  • Huron
  • Oneida
  • Lakota
  • Crow
  • Teton
  • Hopi
  • Inuit