War
What was the event that caused the United States to enter WW2?
Pearl Harbor
What was the first Capital of the United States after the Declaration of Independence?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
John Hancock
What was the first permanent settlement in the United States?
Jamestown, Virginia
What is the name of the catastrophic economic event that took place during the late 1920s and 1930s
The Great Depression
What was the name of the Event where the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada made the Amphibious Invasion of German Occupied Normandy?
Operation Overlord / D-Day
What is the state that has the nickname, "The Garden State"
New Jersey
Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?
Francis Scott Key
What were the names of the 2 cities where the United States detonated an atomic bomb in Japan?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What were the names for the two Islands that immigrants arrived at for processing?
Ellis Island
Angel Island
What was the war where the United States gained territories like California, Nevada, Utah, and other parts of the American Southwest?
Mexican War
What was the first colony to officially declare independence from Great Britain?
Rhode Island - May 4th, 1776
What was the name of the seamstress from Philadelphia that sewed the first official U.S. Flag?
Betsy Ross
What is the name of the event where farmers deprived the Earth of minerals for farm, eventually leading to massive disasters across the Praries?
The Dust Bowl
What was the first president to officially live inside the White House?
John Adams
What was the event that was considered the Turning Point of the U.S. Civil War?
Pickett's Charge - Battle of Gettysburg
What state has the state capital Concord?
New Hampshire
Who was the ruler of Great Britain when the Declaration of Independence was signed?
King George III
What is the name of the act, enacted in 1862, which opened western lands for free settlement and gave each homesteader 160 acres?
The Homestead Act
What are the 4 states that officially call themselves Commonwealths?
Virginia
Massachusetts
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
What was the first battle of the Revolutionary War?
The Battle of Lexington and Concord, April 1775
What was the 48th State admitted into the United States?
Arizona
Who were the names of the FIVE men that drafted the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Ben Franklin
Roger Sherman
Robert Livingston
This was Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to create programs to "jump start" the economy after the economic crash of 1929.
The New Deal
What was the first town the United States entered in Germany during WW2?
Aachen, Germany