Presidents
This president is known best for dying in 32 days.
Who is William Henry Harrison.
This date was when the delegates of the continental congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
What is July 4th?
This document freed the slaves in the rebelling states and changed the idea of the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This major event that almost ended humanity began on October 16, 1962.
What is the Cuban missile crisis?
This was the first British colony in North America.
What was Roanoke?
this man was the first Vice President to become President.
Who is John Tyler?
This was the first battle of the American Revolution.
What was Lexington and concord?
This compromise Is believed to have helped lead to the American civil war by allowing The south to recapture escaped slaves.
What is the compromise of 1850?
This thing was a major goal of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and it became law in 1920.
What was prohibition?
A series of trials in Massachusetts where 25 people were put to death.
What was the Salem witch trials.
This Republican president is best remembered for this scandal.
What was the watergate scandal?
This battle signaled that the Americans could win the revolution and convinced the French to contribute more aid and troops.
What was Saratoga?
This invention was meant to help end slavery but it instead caused the slave trade to increase.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This man was known for being the leader of a mob but was arrested on Tax Evasion charges.
Who is Al Capone?
this religious group were some of the earliest English settlers in America,
who was the pilgrims?
This president was once a five star general.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
This event was when tea was thrown into the Boston harbor.
What was the Boston tea party?
This man and his sons helped kick start the violence known as bleeding Kansas.
Who is john brown?
This president died In office after suffering a heart attack.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
This European group were the first to arrive in the chesapeake bay in 1561.
Who was the Spanish?
This man asssassinated president James Garfield.
Who was Charles guiteau?
This man used pirate tactics to wreak havoc on British cities during the revolution. He was pardoned by one of the towns in 1999.
Who was John Paul jones?
This time period in the late 1800’s is known for its widespread political corruption through use of the spoils system.
What is the gilded age?
This trust having to do with railroads was broken up in 1904
what was northern securities?
This was the original name of New York City.
What was New Amsterdam?