American Revolution
This is the date that the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is July 4, 1776?
He is considered the Father of the Constitution.
Who was James Madison?
This is where the first shots were fired in the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
This is the event that brought the United States into World War II.
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
The two super powers involved in the Cold War.
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
He lead the American forces during the American Revolution.
Who was George Washington?
He was the leader of the Constitutional Convention.
Who was George Washington?
The President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This is where the United States dropped the first atomic bomb.
What is Hiroshima, Japan?
This organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide protection from the Soviet Union.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
He wrote the Virginia Plan.
Who was James Madison?
This was the capitol of the Confederacy from May 1, 1861, to the end of the Civil War.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
The three countries that formed the Axis Powers.
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
The 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The American Revolution ended here with the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to General Washington.
What is the Battle (or Siege) of Yorktown?
This was added to the Constitution to establish the rights of individuals.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the town where General Lee of the Confederacy surrendered to General Grant of the Union.
What is Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia?
This economic crisis ended shortly after the United States entered into World War II.
What is the Great Depression?
The two wars that took place during the Cold War (you only need to name one).
What are the Korean War and the Vietnam War?
He was the most infamous traitor of the American Revolution.
Who was Benedict Arnold?
According to the Preamble of the Constitution, the power belongs to this group.
Who is "We the People?"
Freed slaves within the Union only.
What did Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation do?
This is where the Japanese Americans from California were moved during World War II because their loyalty to the United States was suspect.
What are the Japanese American Internment Camps?
The destruction of this is considered to be the end of the Cold War.
What is the Fall of the Berlin Wall?