American Revolution
Which protest led by Samuel Adams involved trespassing a British vessel and throwing 342 crates of tea overboard?
Boston Tea Party
Who were sent by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase in hopes of finding a Northwest Passage?
Lewis and Clark
What did the Southern states that seceded from the Union call themselves?
The Confederate States of America (Confederacy)
What war began with the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that included two groups of countries- the Allied Powers and the Central (Axis) Powers?
World War I
Pedro Mendez founded this city in 1565 in Florida, the oldest European settlement in the Americas.
St. Augustine
What silversmith alongside William Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode to Lexington to warn the colonists that the British troops were coming.
Paul Revere
What second war with the British included the Battle of New Orleans and ended with the Treaty of Ghent?
War of 1812
What attack on a Charleston fort was the first Confederate victory and the start of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was on the major causes of what period of economic downturn in the United States?
Great Depression
Who was the first English child born in the Americas in the Roanoke colony?
Virginia Dare
Battle of Bunker Hill
This group of people included Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and William Lloyd Garrison. What do you call/ a person who opposed slavery and wanted it to end?
Abolitionist(s)
What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War that led to a famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln?
Battle of Gettysburg
The genocide of millions of Jewish people by the Nazis during World War II is known by what name?
Holocaust
Who led the Jamestown colony and was saved from execution by Pocahontas?
Captain John Smith
What battle occurred after Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night in order to ambush a group of Hessian soldiers?
a. Battle of Trenton
b. Battle of Princeton
c. Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Trenton
What compromise decided that Missouri would be a slave state, Maine would be a free state, and slavery would be banned in the Louisiana territory north of the 36°30′ latitude line?
a. Compromise of 1850
b. Maine Compromise
c. Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise
Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant on April 9, 1865 to end the American Civil War?
Appomattox Courthouse
I Have a Dream speech
Samuel de Champlain
What is the name of the treaty that was signed by Great Britain and the United States that ended the American Revolutionary War?
a. Treaty of Ghent
b. Treaty of Versailles
c. Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris
What was the period after the Civil War called?
Reconstruction
Who shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theater during the play, Our American Cousin?
John Wilkes Booth
What president is the only one to have resigned while in office for his involvement in the Watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
What religious ordered started the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
a. Quakers
b. Catholics
c. Puritans
Puritans