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What was the first battle of the American Revolution?
The Battle of Lexington and Concord, in April 1775
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What are the 3 branches of government?
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
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This is the name of the first automobile model that the average American family could own.
The Model T
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What is the name of the 2 sides which fought each other in WW2?
The Axis and Allied powers.
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What year was the Declaration of Independence created?
1776
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How many original colonies were there?
13
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What invention is Thomas Edison famous for?
Lightbulb 💡
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This event caused the United States to join WWII.
Pearl Harbor
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What is the name of the island where immigrants arrived in America for processing?
Ellis Island
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Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania inside Independence Hall (the former state house).
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What is the name of the act, enacted in 1862, which opened western lands for free settlement and gave each homesteader 160 acres?
The Homestead Act
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What is the name of the famed inventors of the modern aircraft, having designed and piloted the world’s first successful engine-powered plane?
The Wright Brothers
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What is the name of the presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War?
Emancipation Proclamation
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What is the name of the African American man who was born into slavery and became the first leader of The Tuskegee Institute?
Booker T Washington
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What are the names of the men that drafted the Declaration of Independence?
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Livingston
Roger Sherman
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This was the term for the result of the catastrophic event of 1929 where America's money system crashed.
The Great Depression
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What is the name of the event in which farmers leached all the nutrients out of the soil in the prairie lands and caused a natural disaster?
The Dust Bowl
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What is the name of the speech Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
I Have a Dream
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What is the name of the president that was forced to resign due to the Watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon 
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What is the name of the Philadelphia seamstress who created the first official US flag, adopted in 1777?
Betsy Ross
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This was Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to create programs to "jump start" the economy after the economic crash of 1929.
The New Deal
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What is the name of the famous statue that greets those who arrive in New York's harbor?
The Statue of Liberty
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Who was the first president to live in the White House?
John Adams
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The Cold War was waged between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies due to what ideological differences?
The main ideologies were Capitalism (US) vs. Communism (USSR).