American Revolution
Colonial America
Westward Expansion
Civil War
Gold Rush
100

The leader of the Americans during the American Revolution

Who is George Washington?

100

What colonial region was New York in?

What are the Middle Colonies?

100

What is the name of the land purchase that Napoleon gave to the Americans?

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

100

Who was the leader of the Union during the Civil War?

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

100

Which state did the gold rush take place in?

What is California?

200

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

200

What is the name of the first permanent English settlement in Virginia?

What is Jamestown?

200

What was the name of the group that went to explore the west, with leaders Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?

What is the Corps of Discovery?

200

Who was the leader of the Confederacy during the Civil War?

Who was Jefferson Davis?

200

What year did the Gold Rush start?

What is 1849?

300

What day did George Washington cross the Delaware River? (not date, but a day that comes annually)

What is Christmas?

300

What were the areas with huge amounts of crops called? (not farms)

What are plantations?

300

What was the name of the fight which took place at an old mission in Texas and is a very famous battle which inspired Texans to gain independence from Mexico?

What is the Alamo?

300

What year did the Civil War begin?

What is 1861?
300

What was the nickname to all of the gold-seekers that came to California?

What are the forty-niners?

400

Who was the leader of the British side during the American Revolution?

Who is King George III?

400

What was the main quality of the New England colonial people?

What is religion?

400

What is the name of the treaty that gave the U.S. Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico from the Mexican government?

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

400

What was the first battle between the Union and Confederacy known as?

What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?

400

What group came to California in search of gold and had a huge effect that helped build the west, and brought with them a culture to America?

Who are the Chinese?

500

What year did the Boston Tea Party occur?

What is 1773?

500

What were people who came to the US for work, but signed a deal, so that they had to work for a certain amount of years, and then they would be free?

What are indentured servants?

500

What year was the Treaty Line of Oregon Country created?

What is 1846?

500

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

Who was John Wilkes Booth?

500

What was the name of the person who founded the first gold piece on the American River in northern California?

Who is James Marshall?

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