Presidents
The first President of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
This route was the most prominent path for settlers traveling to live on the Pacific Coast.
What is the Oregon Trail?
What was the name of the ship on which the Pilgrims traveled to North America in 1620?
What is The Mayflower
The first permanent English settlement in North America
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
The man that became US president after Herbert Hoover
Who was Franklin D Roosevelt? (1933)
America's flattest state, with a difference of only 345 feet between its highest and lowest points, is also the home to the oldest permanent European settlement
What is Florida?
This city grew to the 3rd largest city in the U.S. after starting out with 2 people when Geo. Washington was president.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
This 18th century tinkerer led to the expansion of slavery in the U.S. with his improvements on the cotton gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
Which two signers of the Declaration of Independence went on to serve as president of the United States?
What is John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
This mysterious water route doesn't exist, but that didn't keep early explorers from searching for it over decades in the 1500s and 1600s.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This act of defiance against British rule took place on Griffin's Wharf in America in 1773.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
The southern border of this state was the farthest north that slavery was allowed in 1820, although the state was a slave state.
What is Missouri?
This "Man of the People" was a general at the Battle of New Orleans before proudly boasting the "Spoils System," which allowed him to place supporters in administration when he became president.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
These are the only two sons of former presidents to be elected as president.
Who are George W. Bush & John Quincy Adams?
This was the first permanent European settlement in the current state of Texas
What is El Paso? (Corpus Christi de la Ysleta)
Emma Lazarus' poem, "The New Colossus" celebrates this gift from France, which now resides on Ellis Island in New York.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This New Mexican city was the home of the secretive A-bomb testing site during WWII.
What is Los Alamos?
The abolitionist credited by Lincoln as writing the book that "started this great war."
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This president's tenure was the shortest, lasting only one month before he died of pneumonia, which developed after shunning a coat on his rainy inauguration day.
Who was William Henry Harrison?
The name of the area that was gained after America's war with Mexico.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This was considered the "Turning Point of the American Revolution," leading France to give its support to the U.S. against England.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This was the last added to the U.S. in 1959, just 8 months after its much colder contemporary.
What is Hawaii?
The preacher whose sermon led "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" to repent and be saved.
Who was Jonathan Edwards?