FAMOUS PEOPLE
He wrote the poem that became “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
➡️ Answer: Who is Francis Scott Key?
He was chosen Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
➡️ Answer: Who is George Washington?
The harsh winter camp where Patriots trained under Von Steuben.
➡️ Answer: What is Valley Forge?
Town Daniel Boone established after building a fort in Kentucky.
➡️ Answer: What is Boonesborough?
A legal right to one’s own invention.
➡️ Answer: What is a patent?
He invented the cotton gin.
➡️ Answer: Who is Eli Whitney?
The Articles of Confederation were mainly led by this man.
➡️ Answer: Who is John Dickinson?
The battle called “the shot heard ’round the world.”
➡️ Answer: What is Lexington?
How much the U.S. paid for Louisiana.
➡️ Answer: What is $15 million?
Compromise that settled representation in Congress.
➡️ Answer: What is the Great Compromise?
First Secretary of the Treasury.
Answer: Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Most important member of the Constitutional Convention.
➡️ Answer: Who is James Madison?
The turning point of the American Revolution.
➡️ Answer: What is Saratoga?
City Napoleon wanted to make his imperial capital.
➡️ Answer: What is New Orleans?
Date the Declaration of Independence was issued.
➡️ Answer: What is July 4, 1776?
Author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
➡️ Answer: Who is Mark Twain?
The plan that favored small states with one vote each in Congress.
➡️ Answer: What is the New Jersey Plan?
Patriot victory that ended the war.
➡️ Answer: What is Yorktown?
Major preserved food staple in Daniel Boone’s time.
➡️ Answer: What is salt?
Two houses that make up Congress.
➡️ Answer: What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
A Quaker boy who became a famous frontiersman and helped settle Kentucky.
➡️ Answer: Who is Daniel Boone?
People who opposed ratifying the Constitution.
➡️ Answer: Who are the Antifederalists?
Raid where Washington captured Hessians on Christmas night.
➡️ Answer: What is Trenton?
Most important domestic issue during Jefferson’s presidency.
➡️ Answer: What is westward expansion?
The three branches of the U.S. government.
➡️ Answer: What are Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?