U.S history
This Boston silversmith is famous for his “midnight ride” warning that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
This disease killed million in Europe during the mid 1300s.
What is the Black Death (The Bubonic Plague)?
This December Holiday traces its origins to the Roman festival of Saturnalia.
What is Christmas?
This war in the 1770s helped the United States become an independent country.
What is the American Revolution?
He sailed across the Atlantic in 1492 and reached the Americas. Often credited for discovering America
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This document was approved on July4th 1776, officially declaring the colonies independent from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This massive trade route connected China to the Mediterranean.
What is the Silk Road?
This Asian holiday, also called the “Lunar New Year,” is based on the Chinese zodiac.
What is the Chinese New Year?
This war between the North and South parts of the United States was fought from 1861 to 1865.
What is the American Civil War?
This woman helped slaves escape through the Underground Railroad in the U.S.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This set of the first ten amendments protect individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Genghis Khan founded this massive Eurasian empire.
What is the Mongol Empire?
Celebrated in April every year, the holiday was to promote environmental protection.
What is Earth Day?
This surprise attack in 1941 brought the U.S into World War II
What is Pearl Harbor?
This person invented the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Japan surrendered in WWII after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and this other city.
What is Nagasaki?
This 1930s worldwide economic downturn caused massive unemployment and hardship.
What is the Great Depression?
This holiday traces its origins to a 1621 harvest meal shared by colonists and the Wampanoag.
What is Thanksgiving?
This World War lasted from 1939 to 1945
What is World War II?
This person led the Indian independence movement using nonviolent civil disobedience.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This 1919 treaty formally ended WWI and placed heavy penalties on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This holiday, occurring on March 17th every year, honors the patron saint credited with spreading Christianity in Ireland.
What is St. Patrick’s Day?
This war was fought in Asia, and the United States tried to stop the spread of communism there.
What is the Vietnam War?
These two people created the first successful airplane in 1903.