Colonies
This is the name we have given colonists who arrived from England on the Mayflower.
What are pilgrims?
This is the year that the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
This was the president of the United States when the Civil War began.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is the Great Depression?
This is the name we most commonly use in the United States to refer to coordinated terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
What is 9/11?
This is the name of the ocean in between North America and Europe.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
What was the first government document called?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
What is North and South?
This war in the 1930s-1940s was between two groups: one called the Allies, which included countries such as England, Russia, and the United States and the other referred to as the "Axis," which included Germany, Japan, and Italy.
What is World War II?
This is the name of a war between the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) that occurred over decades.
What is the Cold War?
These explorers were the among the first Europeans to explore South America and the region now known as Mexico.
What are Spanish Explorers?
What is the current document that we use to determine how the federal government operates?
What is the Constitution?
This practice was abolished by a constitutional amendment, which prompted the Civil War.
What is slavery?
This is another important term for the ability to vote, often used in early campaigns for women's rights to votes.
What is suffrage?
This is the name of the war that occurred in Asia in the 1950s, with one side supported by the United States.
What is the Korean War?
This is the name of the war between British colonies and another European power and its Native American allies before the American revolution.
What is the French and Indian War?
What is taxation without representation?
This regional faction in the Civil War was held financially responsible for the Civil War.
What is the South?
This Hawaiian location was bombed by Japan, which led to the United States entering World War II.
Where is Pearl Harbor?
This movement included Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in the 1950s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
These three European countries had the most colonies in North America.
What are Spain, the United Kingdom (Britain), and France?
This is what the first ten amendments to the American Constitution are called.
What are the Bill of Rights?
This regional faction in the Civil War fought to abolish slavery in the United States and to claim lands and resources the Confederates took when they seceded.
What is the North?
This country in Europe was held financially responsible for the first World War and entered a serious recession (depression).
What is Germany?
This popular web browser was created in the late 1990s.
What is Google?