Exploration and Colonization
Which explorer completed the voyage that connected Europe and the Americas in 1492?
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Which president purchased Louisiana from France?
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Which invention is credited to Alexander Graham Bell?
What was the telephone?
What event began the Great Depression?
What was the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This exchange introduced horses, corn, potatoes, and diseases between Europe and the Americas.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
What are the first ten amendments called?
What is the Bill of Rights?
This belief claimed Americans were destined to expand across the continent.
What was Manifest Destiny?
Who developed the assembly line for automobile production?
Who was Henry Ford?
Which president led the nation through most of World War II?
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
What was Jamestown?
What battle is considered the turning point of the American Revolution?
What was Saratoga?
Which compromise admitted California as a free state in 1850?
What was the Compromise of 1850?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
What event brought the United States into World War II?
What was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This document established self-government aboard the Mayflower.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
The first U.S. government operated under this document.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Which president was known as the "Trust Buster"?
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This movement sought equal rights for African Americans during the 1950s and 1960s.
What was the Civil Rights Movement?
Which war gave Britain control of most French land in North America?
What was the French and Indian War?
Which compromise created a two-house Congress?
What was the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
What was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War?
What was Antietam?
Which event sparked U.S. involvement in World War I?
What was unrestricted submarine warfare (or the Zimmermann Telegram)?
What event led to the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union?
What was the fall of the Berlin Wall (or collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991)?