People
Commander of the Continental Army fighting for independence against Great Britain.
Who is George Washington?
The number of original American colonies.
What is 13?
What is the Mayflower?
Early American colonists declared independence from Britain, making the phrase "No taxation without _____________," popular.
What is representation?
The year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
President of the union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The name of the first permanent English colony in America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
American colonists threw this into the Boston Harbor in protest of new British taxes.
What is tea?
An abolitionist does not believe in the institution of _____________.
What is slavery?
This was the year the California Gold Rush took place (think NorCal football).
What is 1849?
The two people that led the first land expedition to the West Coast.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
What city was the first capital of the United States?
What is New York City?
Most Native Americans died from this disease, brought over by the European colonists and explorers.
What is small pox?
The reason that the Pilgrims originally came to America.
What is to escape religious persecution?
This is the year Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the enslaved people.
What is 1863?
The number of people that were killed in the Boston Massacre.
What is 5?
The first American state.
What is Delaware?
The name of additions or changes to the Constitution (there are 27 of them).
What are amendments?
The number of people that were executed during the Salem Witch Trials.
What is 19-24?
This is the year President George Washington was inaugurated as president of the United States.
What is 1789?
The first president to declare war.
Who is James Madison?
The oldest European-founded city in the United States.
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
The name of the FIRST governing document of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This major holiday was banned in Boston from 1659-1681.
What is Christmas?
The year the first enslaved people were brought to the American colonies.
What is 1619?