Birth of America
Who was the first president of the United States?
George Washington
What were the starting and ending years of WWI for the United States?
1917-1918
Who were the guerrilla forces that fought the South Vietnamese and the United States with the support of the North Vietnamese Army?
Viet Cong
Which president got blamed for the start of the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover
What agricultural equipment in the South made the Civil War inevitable?
Cotton Gin
Who alerted the Minutemen that the British were coming?
Paul Revere
What countries were members of the Triple Entente?
France, Russia, Great Britian
What was President Nixon's tactic to deescalate the war by slowly removing American troops called?
Vietnamization
What doctrine was created to discourage European colonization of the western hemisphere?
Monroe
What invention led to the end of the Open Range and who invented it?
Barbed Wire; Joseph Glidden
Which colony was first to cultivate tobacco?
Virginia Colony
Whose assassination in Sarajevo led to the start of WWI and what country were they from?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria
Who was the president who pardoned the draft dodgers in 1976?
Jimmy Carter
Who were the explorers who led the 1803-1806 expedition to survey lands included in the Louisiana Purchase?
Lewis and Clark
What communication device did Lincoln use to help win the Civil War and who invented it?
Telegraph, Samuel Morse
During the 19th century, what did the U.S. buy that doubled its land and who did the U.S buy it from?
Louisiana Territory, France
Name the bombs and cities on which the atomic bombs were dropped:
Little Boy on Hiroshima; Fat Man on Nagasaki
Who was the president given broad powers by the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
President Johnson
Who was the African American activist that co-founded the NAACP and was the author of “The Crisis”?
W.E.B Du Bois
What did Robert Fulton construct in 1806 that revolutionized naval warfare and what was the name of the first one made?
Steamboat, Clermont
What is the preamble of the U.S Constitution? (Worth double points)
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
After Pearl Harbor, the 1st major land battle in the Pacific was on the island of Guadalcanal, in this country in Oceania. What is the name of the country?
Solomon Islands
What was the name of the conference that ended the war between the French and the Vietnamese communists?
Geneva Conference
Who was appointed the first Secretary of Treasure on September 11, 1789 by president George Washington?
Alexander Hamilton
Who changed the way shoes were made by inventing a machine that could make shoes quickly in different sizes?
Jan Matzeliger