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100
This is the war where we fought the British for our Independence?
What is the Revolutionary War?
100
Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in...?
What is 1492?
100
Taking place in Salem, Massachusetts this span of time was prominent with accusations of others dealing in witch craft therefore forced to death.
What is the Salem Witch Trials
100

Who was the first President of the United States?

Who is George Washington?

100

First permanent English settlement in North America founded in 1607

What is Jamestown?

200
The main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
The first colony that the pilgrims set up was called
What is Plymouth or Plymouth Rock?
200
An incident where British redcoats killed five civilian colonists. Took place in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
She was the first woman to fly a plane solo across the Atlantic.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
200

First official government in colonial Virginia

House of Burgesses

300

This was the year of the first 4th of July. 

What is 1776?

300
Christopher Columbus sailed for Portugal but was actually from....?
What is Italy?
300

The removal of Native Americans from the southeast United States was known as the trail of what?

What is The Trail of Tears?

300
First person to discover electricity
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300

The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

What are the Bill of Rights?

400

He was King of Britain when we declared Independence? 

Who is King George III?

400
What Native American group helped the pilgrims in the first Thanksgiving? Sioux Wampanoag Cherokee
Who are the Wampanoag?
400
This was the year the stock market crashed and started the Great Depression.
What is 1929?
400

First African American Major League Baseball player.

Who is Jackie Robinson?

400

The author of Common Sense

Who is Thomas Paine?

500
The city where Congress met to draft and adopt the Declaration of Independence.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
500

Christopher accidentally sailed to the modern day United States. Where did he want to go originally? 

What is India?

500
The name of the camps that held Japanese-Americans that were considered a threat after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
What is Japanese-American Internment Camps?
500

The first woman to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?

500

19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

What is Manifest Destiny?

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