Early American History
This University of Virginia founder lived at Monticello and was the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This war was triggered by the explosion of the ship USS Maine in Havana harbor in Cuba.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This 1954 Supreme Court civil rights case ended legal segregation in American education.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) was a Massachusetts politician who defeated this candidate in the Presidential election of 1960.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This nation's struggle for independence sparked the Spanish-American War.
What is Cuba?
Eli Whitney (1765-1825) was the inventor of this, which greatly aided the growth of slavery in the American South by allowing cotton to be quickly processed.
What is the cotton gin?
This Lakota Sioux leader won the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Who is Crazy Horse?
This 1962 Cold War conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union almost triggered nuclear war between those nations.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Name the 2 United States Presidents who were Catholic.
Who are John F. Kennedy and Joe Biden?
The United States' first African-American president, notably ran with the primary slogans “Hope” and “Forward” during his two presidential campaigns.
Who is Barack Obama?
This US Founding Father's portrait appears on the US 100 dollar bill. He was known for his work with electricity, being the first U.S. Postmaster General, numerous inventions, and his Poor Richard's Almanac.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This term literally means "before war" and is often used to refer to the Southern United States before the Civil War. A country group adopted this name, but in 2020 changed it to "Lady A".
What is "antebellum"?
This man was the 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913. He later served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the only president to have done so.
Who was William Howard Taft?
The first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court was this future New York governor.
Who is John Jay?
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2015 musical covers the life of this man during the American Revolution. He was also the first Secretary of the Treasury and appears on the $10 bill.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This founding document was principally authored by the third president, Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) led the Union through the Civil War and was assassinated by this man.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Located in Arlington, VA, and the world’s largest office building, this has been the headquarters of the US Department of Defense since 1943.
What is the Pentagon?
This document signed aboard a ship was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The United States Constitution includes 27 amendments, the first ten of which are referred to as this.
What are the Bill of Rights?
This man, sometimes called the first “American Evangelical,” was educated at Harvard College.
Who is Cotton Mather?
This is the nickname for the path that the Cherokee Nation Native American tribe was forced to take when expelled from northwest Georgia.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The Wright Brothers, Orville (1871-1948) and Wilbur (1867-1912), made the first powered airplane flight in 1903 at this location.
Where is Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?
Name the 1815 battle in which the British tried to take a famous Louisiana city, and potentially the entire recently acquired Louisiana Purchase. Fortunately Andrew Jackson and his U.S. troops were victorious.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
Thomas Edison invented the first practical incandescent light bulb and was a rival of this Serbian-American inventor.
Who is Nicola Tesla?