Founding Fathers
He became the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This document's first three words are "We the People."
What is the Constitution?
This president appears on the one-dollar bill.
Who is George Washington?
There are this many stars on the American flag.
What is 50?
Brothers Orville and Wilbur invented this flying machine.
What is the airplane?
This inventor, diplomat, and printer helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This amendment guarantees freedom of speech, religion, and the press.
What is the First Amendment?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This year the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
What is 1776?
Thomas Edison is credited with improving this household invention.
What is the light bulb?
He was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The Constitution divides power among these three branches of government.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches?
At age 43, he became the youngest elected president.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The U.S. Constitution was signed in this year.
What is 1787?
Alexander Graham Bell patented this communication device in 1876.
What is the telephone?
Known as the "Father of the Constitution," he later became the fourth president.
Who is James Madison?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This president served four elected terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This is the year the Civil War(War of Northern Aggression for us Carolinians) started.
What is 1861?
Eli Whitney revolutionized cotton production with this invention.
What is the cotton gin?
This Founding Father wrote most of the Federalist Papers and founded the nation's financial system.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
It takes this fraction of the states to ratify a constitutional amendment.
What is three-fourths (38 states)?
Before becoming president, he was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This is the total number of amendments to the Constitution.
What is 27?
Robert H. Goddard is considered the father of this type of rocket.
What is the liquid-fueled rocket?