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Which Founding Father helped write the Declaration of Independence?
Ben Franklin!
Which war stopped the Washington Monument from being finished for over 20 years?
Civil War
What famous bell cracked during a funeral and hasn’t been rung since?
The Liberty Bell
Who was the first African American player in Major League Baseball?
Jackie Robinson
In which state (or city) did the Constitutional Convention meet? (8th grade you better know this)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Which law forced thousands of Native Americans off their land in 1830?
The ____ Removal Act of 1830
Indian
What was the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history??
Battle of Antietam
What former slave helped create the Emancipation Proclamation?
Frederick Douglass
What treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War?
The Treaty of Paris
Whose birthday do we celebrate on February 22?
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
What early settlement almost failed before John Rolfe started growing tobacco there?
Jamestown
Which document set basic rules for self-government among the Pilgrims?
The _____ Compact
Mayflower
What was the first permanent English settlement?
Jamestown
Which group left England to escape religious persecution?
The Pilgrims
What ocean did early explorers cross to reach North America from Europe?
The Atlantic
Which Native American helped the Pilgrims grow crops?
Squanto
What group of English settlers started the Massachusetts Bay Colony? (Puritans or Pilgrims)?
What early form of money was sometimes used in the colonies?
Coins
Wampum
Shells
Wampum
Which early European settlement mysteriously disappeared? (hint: starts with an R)
Roanoke (the lost colony!)
Which president never lived in the White House?
Which Founding Father became the second U.S. president?
John Adams
What war set the stage for the American Revolution?
The ___ and ___ War
French and Indian
What were colonists called if they stayed loyal to Britain?
Loyalists
Who signed the Declaration of Independence in giant letters?
John ____
Hancock
What order freed enslaved people in Confederate states?
Emancipation Proclamation
What short speech did Lincoln give after a huge battle in Pennsylvania?
The Gettysburg Address
What invention made it possible to send messages through wires?
Who came up with the telephone in the late 1800s?
Alexander Graham Bell
What monument in D.C. took almost 100 years to finally finish?
White House
Washington Monument
Capitol Building
Washington Monument
What sport took off in the 1800s and led to the first pro league?
What was the first national park in the U.S., created in 1872?
Yellowstone National Park
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
Which surprise attack pulled the U.S. into World War II?
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
Muhammed Ali
Martin Luther King, Jr!
Which law banned segregation in public places in 1964?
The Anti-Segregation Act
The Civil Rights Act
The Declaration of Independence
The Civil Rights Act
Which president resigned in 1974?
Howard Taft
Richard Nixon
Abraham Lincoln
What were colonists protesting with the Boston Tea Party?
The Stamp Act
The Declaration Act
The Retaliation Act
The Stamp Act
When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
August 3, 1776
August 2, 1776
August 4, 1776
August 2, 1776
What was the first American state?
Delaware
1862
1861
1862!