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What is the name of the region where Indians lived in tepees, hunted buffalo, and were excellent horsement?
The Great Plains.
Who was the primary author of the Decleration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson.
Who defeated Andrew Jackson in the presidential election of 1824?
John Quincy Adams.
What region was most affected by the invention of the Cotton Gin?
The Southern states.
What did Hitler do that began World War 2?
He invaded Poland.
Who was the viking who discovered the strange land of Vinland?
Leif Erikson.
Who was the most famous of the riders who warned the colonists that British troops were on the move?
Paul Revere.
What was Mudslinging?
It is when someone makes bad statements about opponents.
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis.
Whose assassination and death started World War 1?
Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
Who tried to colonize Roanoke Island?
Sir Walter Raleigh.
What was the name of the city that was under British occupation after the first skirmishes of the War for Independence?
Boston.
A mass migration of Native Americans who were moved from their homes onto reservations in the west in which many of them died along the way.
Which Union general who captured the upper Mississippi River area and became Lincoln's general in chief?
Ulysses S. Grant.
What was the name of the operation in which the Allies (the U.S., Great Britain, etc.) invaded northern France to liberate it from Germany?
D-Day.
What did the Great Awakening do for the churches in New England?
It unified them.
Colonists who wanted to seperate from England were influenced by the ideas of which political philosopher?
John Locke.
Why did Andrew Jackson oppose the National Bank?
He believed them to be unconstitutional.
What things did the Union army destroy in the South during Union General William T. Shermans' "March to the sea" campaign?
Farms, businessess, and railroads.
What was the Red Scare?
A time in the U.S. when the fear of Communism began to grow.
Unitarianism.
Why was the Treaty of Paris important in the War for Independence?
It officially ended the war.
What did the protective tariff do for both American industries and foreign goods?
It protected American industries from foreign competition and raised the prices of foreign goods.
It exempted owners of twenty or more slaves from the Confederate army draft.
What was the Manhattan Project?
An operation ordered by President Harry Truman that was created to create weapons of mass destruction a.k.a. nuclear bombs.
Uranium Fever has done and got me down.