Validating Vocabulary
Personable People
Precarious Places
Brutal Battles
Random Questions!!
100
This disease is carried by mosquitoes
What is malaria?
100
He was the president of the Union during the Civil War
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
This was the capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond, VA?
100
Davy Crockett, William B. Travis, and Jim Bowie all died during this battle
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
100
This daughter of an Indian chief married John Rolfe
Who was Pocahontas?
200
These are soldiers who fight on foot
What is an infantry?
200
This man started the Protestant Reformation when he nailed his 95 theses on a church door
Who was Martin Luther?
200
This was the capital of the Union
What is Washington, D.C.?
200
Santa Anna was captured during the quick battle
What is the Battle at San Jacinto?
200
He was the president of the Confederacy
Who was Jefferson Davis?
300
This executive order, signed by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freed slaves in the Confederacy but not in the Union
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
This Texas governor was booted out of office after refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy
Who was Sam Houston?
300
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while watching a play at this theater
What is Ford's Theater?
300
Texans were massacred at this site during the Texas Revolution
What is Goliad?
300
This was the first permanent English settlement
What is Jamestown?
400
This order, ratified by Congress after Abraham Lincoln's death, freed all the slaves in the United States
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
400
Christopher Columbus was of this descent
What is Italian?
400
The Protestant Reformation was started in this country
What is Germany?
400
This was where the first shot of the Civil War was fired
What is Ft. Sumter, SC?
400
This is the name of the land bridge ancient peoples used to cross into the Americas
What is Beringia?
500
This is another word for forced enrollment into military service
What is conscription?
500
This was the U.S. president who made Texas a U.S. state
Who was James K. Polk?
500
This was the first state to secede from the Union
What is South Carolina?
500
The last battle of the Civil War was fought here, one month after the war ended
What is Palmito Ranch?
500
This is about how long ago the last Ice Age ended
What is about 12,000 years ago?
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