Start of a Country
Who was the first President of the United States
George Washington
What was the greatest motivation for Americans to settle in California?
Gold Rush
What development connected the Pacific and Atlantic Rail Lines?
Transcontinental Railroad
In what year did the stock market crash?
1929
What was the first country in the western hemisphere to fall to communism?
Cuba
What was the first state added into the Union from the Northwest Territory?
Ohio
Which party became the successor of the Whigs?
Republicans
Who led the Apache Tribe in New Mexico?
Geronimo
What was the German Blitzkrieg known as?
Lightning War
Which city was divided into East and West and had a wall that separated the two sides?
Berlin
On what date did America declare its independence?
July 4th 1776
What event caused the lower South to secede?
Election of Abraham Lincoln
What was the largest single American acquisition of territory after the Civil War?
Alaska
What was the first country invaded and captured by Hitler?
Austria
What happened on November 22nd, 1963?
JFK was assassinated
How much was the Louisiana Land Purchase for?
15 Million
Where did Robert E Lee surrender to end the Civil War?
Appomattox Court House
Who was the Steel Giant?
Andrew Carnegie
Who were the big 3?
FDR
Stalin
Churchill
Who was the soviet leader whose philosophy of Glasnot and Peristroika led to the end of the USSR?
Mikhail Gorbachev
What was the name of the political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston?
Boston Tea Party
What were the Three Amendments passed during Reconstruction and what did they declare?
13th, abolition of slavery
14th, guarantee of citizens rights
15th, guarantee of Voting rights
Who was the Oil man?
John D. Rockefeller
What nation was forced to surrender one region of its land to Germany at the Munich Conference?
Czechoslovakia
What building was attacked in February of 1993 and was an act of terrorism on American Soil?
World trade Center