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What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
On which continent is the United States located?
North America
Who was the first president of the United States?
George Washington
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What was the first capital of the United States under the Constitution?
New York
What were the American colonists who fought for independence from Britain called?
Patriots
What were the American colonists who remained loyal to the British king during the American Revolution called?
Loyalists
In what year did the United States declare independence from Britain?
1776
From which country did the United States purchase Louisiana in 1803?
France
Which country did the United States fight against in the War of 1812?
Great Britain
What was the name of the religious revival movement that spread through the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s?
Great Awakening
What was the name of the British law issued in 1763 that restricted colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
What was the name of the 1773 protest in which American colonists threw British tea into Boston Harbor?
Boston Tea Party
What was the name of the 1787 law that established rules for creating new states in the territory northwest of the Ohio River?
Northwest Ordinance
What was the name of the 1803 agreement through which the United States acquired a vast territory from France?
Louisiana Purchase
What was the name of the war fought between Britain and France from 1756 to 1763?
Seven Years’ War
What was the name of the war in which the American colonies fought for independence from Britain?
Revolutionary War
What was the name of the document adopted on July 4, 1776, that announced American independence from Britain?
Declaration of Independence
What was the name of the first constitution of the United States?
Articles of Confederation
What was the name of the colonial protest group that opposed British taxation and included Samuel Adams?
Sons of Liberty
What was the name of Benjamin Franklin's 1754 proposal to unite the British colonies under a common government?
Albany Plan of Union
What was the name of the group of Pennsylvania frontier settlers who attacked Native American communities in 1763?
Paxton Boys
What was the name of the 1793 diplomatic controversy involving a French representative who attempted to recruit Americans to support France's wars despite Washington's neutrality policy?
Citizen Genêt controversy
What was the name of the 1794 agreement between the United States and Britain that addressed several unresolved disputes following the Revolutionary War?
Jay Treaty
What was the name of the diplomatic scandal in which French intermediaries demanded payments from American diplomats before negotiations could begin in 1797?
XYZ Affair