This territory was acquired in 1819, when Spain gave it to the United States.
What is Florida?
100
He was an entreprenuer that created the first successful steamboat business in America.
Who was Robert Fulton?
100
This place was the site of the first battle of the American Revolutionary War?
What is Lexington and Concord?
100
This is the location where the Civil War officially started.
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
100
Which region of the United States is located along the Hudson Bay?
What is the Canadian Shield?
200
This territory was once shared by the United States and England. It used to include land in the present-day states of Idaho, Montana, and Washington.
What was the Oregon territory?
200
She created the American Red Cross at the end of the Civil War.
Who was Clara Barton?
200
This battle was the turning point of the American Revolutionary War.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
200
These were slave states who voted to stay with the Union side during the Civil War.
What were Border States?
200
This invention dramatically increased the need for slave labor in the south.
What was the cottin gin?
300
It was the idea that the United States had the right to move westward and to settle. It was God's will.
What was Manifest Destiny?
300
He was an African American who helped to design Washinton DC.
Who was Benjamin Banneker?
300
He was a silversmith during the Revolutionary war. He also helped to start the secretive Committee of Correspondence.
Who was Samuel Adams?
300
This battle is considered to be the turning point of the Civil War.
What was Gettysburg?
300
It was during his Presidency that the Star Stangled Banner was written. It occurred during the War of 1812.
Who was James Madison?
400
In 1803, this President hired Lewis and Clarke to explore the territory that he had purchased from France.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
400
He was a slave who went on to become a great orator. He also wrote for the North Star.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
400
Two part question!!
He surrendered in what city, thus ending the American Revolutionary War.
Who was Lord Cornwallis in Yorktown?
400
After this important battle, General Grant gained control of the Mississippi River.
What was the battle of Vicksburg?
400
She spent most of her life fighting for women's suffrage. Though she never saw it's achievement, the US government honored her work by placing her on a US coin.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
500
Lewis and Clarke explored this river, which runs through Washington state.
What is the Columbia river?
500
She was an abolitionist and a suffragist. She is widely known for her speech entitled, "Ain't I a Woman?"
Who was Sojourner Truth?
500
This order by the King of England forbade the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
500
He was a slave during Civil War. He ended up becoming a Union Naval Officer, and later a Congressman.
Who was Robert Smalls?
500
The Cactus Hill archeological site is located along this river.