Important Documents
Name at least one known person to sign the consititution (39 people)
Who was Washington, Franklin, Madison?
Name the first president to ever declare war.
Who was Madison? 1812 war against Britain.
Name the confederacy that influenced the US constitution. (worlds oldest confederacy)
What is the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy?
Who was Eileen Collins?
Name the states that Thomas Jefferson had to pay 27 million for that belonged to Napolean.
What was Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, North and South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, with most of Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Minnesota?
Name the amendment that took over 200 years to be ratified and added to the constitution?
What is the 27th amendment which was proposed in 1789 and ratified in 1992?
Name the battle that was a turning point during the civil war which ended up helping the North win?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Name a Native American reservation in NYS (there are 10)
What is Allegany Reservation, Cattaraugus Reservation, Oil Springs Reservation, Oneida Reservation, Onandaga Reservation, Poospatuck Reservation, St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, Shinnehock Reservation, Tonawanda Reservation and the Tuskcarora Revervation?
Name the man who was accused of witchcraft and was crushed to death after saying "more weight" and never confessed or denied.
Who was Giles Corey? (only person who was ever court ordered to be pressed to death)
Name the unsolved bombing that happened in New York in the 1920s.
What is the Wall Street Bombing?
Name the main purpose of the Declaration of Independence.
What was to explain the colonists right to revolution?
Name the only land battle on US soil during WW2
What was the battle of Attu?
Name the bird thats illegal (federal) to use its feathers unless youre Native American
What are Eagle feathers?
Name the Native American Cheif who sat there during battle but participated in a cursed dance known as the ghost dance
Who was Sitting Bull?
Name the attack that happened in Boston that killed 5 Americans because they were protesting the British rule.
What was the Boston Massacre
Name the document that overrules any law made.
Name the president who fought in an undeclared war without congress knowing.
Who was John Adams?
Name the representation of an eagle in Native American culture.
What is the symbol of the great spirit, who is above all and from who the strength and power flows? (pretty much their god)
Name one of the greatest literature written even though the author dropped out of school to support his family after his father died and wrote for the Hannibal Journal.
Who was Mark Twain?
In 1899 these workers striked because of high prices which lasted 2 weeks which inspired other workers to strike.
Who were the Newboys of New York? (Newsies on Broadway's story)
Name the papers that supported the constitution.
What were the Federalist Papers? (The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays The work divided evenly among the three men In the end, they wrote eighty-five essays in the span of six months John Jay got sick after writing five James Madison wrote twenty-nineHamilton wrote the other FIFTY-ONE! (Hamilton on Disney Plus))
Name the battle that killed more people than WW1 and WW2 COMBINED
What is the Civil War with 600,000 deaths, which was one of the deadliest wars in history?
Name the Native American flutist who was from the Cheyenne tribe who was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2001
Who was Joseph Fire Crow with his album Cheyenne Nation?
Name the influencial person who refused to shoot a bear while hunting in 1902 in Mississippi
Who was Teddy Roosevelt who the Teddy Bear was named after?
Name the important event a woman participated in as a registered competitor in 1967 but was attacked by the race director while she was running the race?
Who was Katherine Switzer who ran the Boston marathon whos time was 4 hours and 20 minutes to run 26.2 miles?