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#73 — A: Colonial Period and Independence

The colonists came to America for many reasons. Name one.

  • Freedom
  • Political liberty
  • Religious freedom
  • Economic opportunity
  • Escape persecution
#74 — A: Colonial Period and Independence⭐ 65/20

Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

  • American Indians
  • Native Americans
#75 — A: Colonial Period and Independence

What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?

  • Africans
  • People from Africa
#76 — A: Colonial Period and Independence

What war did the Americans fight to win independence from Britain?

  • American Revolution
  • The (American) Revolutionary War
  • War for (American) Independence
#77 — A: Colonial Period and Independence

Name one reason why the Americans declared independence from Britain.

  • High taxes
  • Taxation without representation
  • British soldiers stayed in Americans' houses (boarding, quartering)
  • They did not have self-government
  • Boston Massacre
  • Boston Tea Party (Tea Act)
  • Stamp Act
  • Sugar Act
  • Townshend Acts
  • Intolerable (Coercive) Acts
#78 — A: Colonial Period and Independence⭐ 65/20

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

  • (Thomas) Jefferson
#79 — A: Colonial Period and Independence

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

  • July 4, 1776
#80 — A: Colonial Period and Independence

The American Revolution had many important events. Name one.

  • (Battle of) Bunker Hill
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Washington Crossing the Delaware (Battle of Trenton)
  • (Battle of) Saratoga
  • Valley Forge (Encampment)
  • (Battle of) Yorktown (British surrender at Yorktown)
#81 — A: Colonial Period and Independence

There were 13 original states. Name five.

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

What founding document was written in 1787?

  • (U.S.) Constitution
#83 — 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
#84 — A: Colonial Period and Independence

Why were the Federalist Papers important?

  • They helped people understand the (U.S.) Constitution.
  • They supported passing the (U.S.) Constitution.
#85 — A: Colonial Period and Independence

Benjamin Franklin is famous for many things. Name one.

  • Founded the first free public libraries
  • First Postmaster General of the United States
  • Helped write the Declaration of Independence
  • Inventor
  • U.S. diplomat
#86 — A: Colonial Period and Independence⭐ 65/20

George Washington is famous for many things. Name one.

  • "Father of Our Country"
  • First president of the United States
  • General of the Continental Army
  • President of the Constitutional Convention
#87 — A: Colonial Period and Independence

Thomas Jefferson is famous for many things. Name one.

  • Writer of the Declaration of Independence
  • Third president of the United States
  • Doubled the size of the United States (Louisiana Purchase)
  • First Secretary of State
  • Founded the University of Virginia
  • Writer of the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom
#88 — A: Colonial Period and Independence

James Madison is famous for many things. Name one.

  • "Father of the Constitution"
  • Fourth president of the United States
  • President during the War of 1812
  • One of the writers of the Federalist Papers
#89 — A: Colonial Period and Independence

Alexander Hamilton is famous for many things. Name one.

  • First Secretary of the Treasury
  • One of the writers of the Federalist Papers
  • Helped establish the First Bank of the United States
  • Aide to General George Washington
  • Member of the Continental Congress
#90 — B: 1800s

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

  • Louisiana Territory
  • Louisiana
#91 — B: 1800s

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

  • War of 1812
  • Mexican-American War
  • Civil War
  • Spanish-American War
#92 — B: 1800s

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

  • The Civil War
#93 — B: 1800s

The Civil War had many important events. Name one.

  • (Battle of) Fort Sumter
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • (Battle of) Vicksburg
  • (Battle of) Gettysburg
  • Sherman's March
  • (Surrender at) Appomattox
  • (Battle of) Antietam/Sharpsburg
  • Lincoln was assassinated.
#94 — B: 1800s⭐ 65/20

Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things. Name one.

  • Freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation)
  • Saved (or preserved) the Union
  • Led the United States during the Civil War
  • 16th president of the United States
  • Delivered the Gettysburg Address
#95 — 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
#96 — B: 1800s

What U.S. war ended slavery?

  • The Civil War
#97 — B: 1800s

What amendment says all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are U.S. citizens?

  • 14th Amendment
#98 — B: 1800s

When did all men get the right to vote?

  • After the Civil War
  • During Reconstruction
  • (With the) 15th Amendment
  • 1870
#99 — B: 1800s

Name one leader of the women's rights movement in the 1800s.

  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Lucy Stone
#100 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

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

  • World War I
  • World War II
  • Korean War
  • Vietnam War
  • (Persian) Gulf War
#101 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Why did the United States enter World War I?

  • Because Germany attacked U.S. (civilian) ships
  • To support the Allied Powers (England, France, Italy, and Russia)
  • To oppose the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria)
#102 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

When did all women get the right to vote?

  • 1920
  • After World War I
  • (With the) 19th Amendment
#103 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

What was the Great Depression?

  • Longest economic recession in modern history
#104 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

When did the Great Depression start?

  • The Great Crash (1929)
  • Stock market crash of 1929
#105 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

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

  • (Franklin) Roosevelt
#106 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Why did the United States enter World War II?

  • (Bombing of) Pearl Harbor
  • Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
  • To support the Allied Powers (England, France, and Russia)
  • To oppose the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan)
#107 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Dwight Eisenhower is famous for many things. Name one.

  • General during World War II
  • President at the end of (during) the Korean War
  • 34th president of the United States
  • Signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (Created the Interstate System)
#108 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Who was the United States' main rival during the Cold War?

  • Soviet Union
  • USSR
  • Russia
#109 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

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

  • Communism
  • Nuclear war
#110 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Why did the United States enter the Korean War?

  • To stop the spread of communism
#111 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Why did the United States enter the Vietnam War?

  • To stop the spread of communism
#112 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

What did the civil rights movement do?

  • Fought to end racial discrimination
#113 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information⭐ 65/20

Martin Luther King, Jr. is famous for many things. Name one.

  • Fought for civil rights
  • Worked for equality for all Americans
  • Worked to ensure that people would "not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"
#114 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Why did the United States enter the Persian Gulf War?

  • To force the Iraqi military from Kuwait
#115 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information⭐ 65/20

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

  • Terrorists attacked the United States
  • Terrorists took over two planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York City
  • Terrorists took over a plane and crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia
  • Terrorists took over a plane originally aimed at Washington, D.C., and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania
#116 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Name one U.S. military conflict after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

  • (Global) War on Terror
  • War in Afghanistan
  • War in Iraq
#117 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.

  • Apache
  • Blackfeet
  • Cayuga
  • Cherokee
  • Cheyenne
  • Chippewa
  • Choctaw
  • Creek
  • Crow
  • Hopi
  • Huron
  • Inupiat
  • Lakota
  • Mohawk
  • Mohegan
  • Navajo
  • Oneida
  • Onondaga
  • Pueblo
  • Seminole
  • Seneca
  • Shawnee
  • Sioux
  • Teton
  • Tuscarora
#118 — C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Name one example of an American innovation.

  • Light bulb
  • Automobile (cars, internal combustion engine)
  • Skyscrapers
  • Airplane
  • Assembly line
  • Landing on the moon
  • Integrated circuit (IC)