Presidents
Before becoming President, he was a Lieutenant Colonel during the French and Indian War.
Who was George Washington?
The year gold was discovered in California, causing the Gold Rush.
What is 1848?
The most common name for the War Against Northern Aggression or the War of Secession.
What is the Civil War?
The woman who refused to give up her bus seat, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott.
Who was Rosa Parks?
The immigration center in New York Harbor, where more than 12 million people entered the United States from 1892-1954.
What is Ellis Island?
This important document was signed in July, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The 4 presidents to have been assassinated.
Who are Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy?
The president with a "big stick" policy.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
The year the stock-market crashed, starting the Great Depression.
What was 1929?
The Revolutionary War officially began in March, 1770, when a crowd began throwing snowballs and stones at soldiers, an incident known as this.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The woman who established the Red Cross in the United States in 1881, after working with the Red Cross in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War.
Who was Clara Barton?
The 50th state to join the United States of America.
What is Hawaii?
The name for the first ten amendments, which took effect in December, 1791.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The president during Reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The year the Pilgrims landed in the New World.
What is 1620?
The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key during this war.
What is the War of 1812?
The woman on posters used to recruit women for work during World War II, saying "We Can Do It!".
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
The area explored by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark after the US bought it under the presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Written to maintain peace in the new colony, this document established the first self-government in the New World, and was signed aboard a ship.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The president who pledged the American people a "New Deal" to help conquer the Great Depression.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
This delivery system, though quite successful, lasted only a year and a half, from April, 1860, to October, 1861.
What was the Pony Express?
The war in which Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders charged up San Juan Hill.
What was the Spanish-American War?
The two women who were both the wife and mother of a president. (Name both)
Who are Abigail Adams and Barbara Bush?
The first state to secede from the Union, just before the official start of the Civil War.
What is South Carolina?
The Act of 1862 which gave 160 acres to individuals who paid a $10 filing fee.
What was the Homestead Act?
The president who appointed the first female Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
The year that both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F Kennedy were assassinated.
The name of the top-secret operation in which nuclear bombs were made during World War II.
What was the Manhattan Project?
The woman to whom Abraham Lincoln said, "So, you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this war!"
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The state many people fled from during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
What is Oklahoma?
Not a fan of NAFTA, President Trump pushed for its modification or removal; after more than a year, this new agreement took effect in July 2020.
What is the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement?