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It required this many states to amend the Articles of Confederation.
What is 13?
The Jamestown colony finally became profitable by growing this crop.
What is tobacco?
This person is on the one dollar bill.
Who is George Washington?
This was the first state to ratify the new U.S. Constitution.
What is Delaware?
He and his kite are credited with discovering electricity.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The "supremacy clause" is found in this article of the U.S. Constitution.
What is Article VI (6)?
This nation colonized Louisiana.
What is France?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Frenchman directed the sale of the Louisiana Territory to the U.S.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Who is Levi Strauss?
This many delegates at the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence.
What is 56?
This was the first attempt at establishing an English colony in the New World.
What is Roanoke?
This person is on the 10 dollar bill.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Whigs, Greenbacks, Free Soilers, and Know Nothings are all types of these.
What are political parties?
An avid inventor, Thomas Jefferson created a prototype of this type of chair.
What is a swivel chair?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Native American nation helped Plymouth survive its first winter.
Who are the Wampanoag?
This person is on the 20 dollar bill.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The "The Star-Spangled Banner," the U.S. National Anthem, was written during this war.
What is the War of 1812?
He invented the telegraph system.
Who is Samuel Morse?
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison wrote this many Federalist Papers essays.
What is 85 essays?
This is the oldest Spanish settlement in Florida.
What is St. Augustine?
This person is on the 50 dollar bill.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
He was the first president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This invention closed the West's "open range" and effectively ended long cattle drives.
What is barbed wire?