What was the American Revolution slogan that pertained to taxes?
What is "No taxation without representation!"
100
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
100
Who was the only President to resign?
Who is Richard Nixon?
100
What Supreme Court ruling decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
100
What island is known as the Ellis Island of the West?
What is Angel Island?
200
The Boston Tea party was a reaction to what British Parliamentary Act?
What is the Tea Act?
200
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do exactly?
What is free the slaves in Confederate States?
200
Which president purchased the Louisiana Territory from the French?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Who refusal to give up her seat on the bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery Alabama buses from 1955-1956?
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
This book, written by Upton Sinclair, exposed the harsh and wretched conditions immigrants lived in. What is the title of this book?
What is The Jungle?
300
The English Puritans began the Massachusetts Colony, but what exactly were they trying to purify?
What is the Church of England?
300
Where were the first shots of the war fired?
Where is Fort Sumter?
300
Which unpopular tax did George Washington raise?
What is the Whiskey Tax?
300
What amendment granted African-American men the right to vote in the U.S.?
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
On what famous boat did the first settlers of Plymouth Rock sail on?
What is the Mayflower?
400
Name the first college in the British Colonies in North America.
What is Harvard College?
400
How many states seceded from the Union?
BONUS: Name them
What is 11?
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
400
Who was President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Who is John F. Kennedy?
400
Name the laws enacted by the Southern States after the Civil War that legalized segregation.
What are Jim Crow laws?
400
Congress passed which Act in 1882 limiting laborers from entering the country?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
What domestic issues did George Washington warn against in his farewell address?
What is a political party system?
500
He is considered to be the worst President and he could have potentially stopped the Southern States from seceding from the Union.
Who is James Buchanan?
500
Who was the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms in office?
Who is Grover Cleveland?
500
Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts AND was the first African-American to be admitted into the National Inventors Hall Of Fame?
Who is George Washington Carver?
500
From what regions of Europe did most immigrants hail from during the middle of the 19th century?