Revolutionary War
The USA fought from this country for independence.
Great Britain
The first president of the USA
George Washington
This is our current vice president
JD Vance
After the Boston Tea Party, this beverage flourished in American markets and continues to do so today.
Coffee
This is the number of supreme court Justices are there.
9
This is the number of colonies in the USA at the start of the American Revolution.
13
This is the first vice president and the second president (same person)
John Adams
This 6'4" US president was an elite wrestler winning around 300 matches and the first president to sport a full beard.
Abe Lincoln, fun fact he only lost 1 of the 300 matches and is in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame
This was the first state to secede from the Union following the election of President Abe Lincoln.
South Caroline
These are the 3 branches of the US government.
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
After the Stamp act of 1765, tensions and protests in America increased. The first armed conflict initiating the Revolutionary War was in this year.
1775 April 19
These are two founding fathers who died 330 minutes apart on the 50th anniversary of American Independence the 4th of July 1826.
Bonus of 200 points (or subtract 300 from another team) to name the 3rd founding father to die on the 4th of July but this one died in 1831
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Bonus: James Monroe
This is the only President in US history to completely pay off the national debt.
Andrew Jackson
At Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore, the Star-Spangled Banner was written during this war.
The war of 1812
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
100 bonus (or subtract 200 from another team) for the year
The 19th amendment
june 4, 1919
This famous traitor of the Revolutionary War turned against the Continental Army and plotted to surrender the strategic fort at West Point to the British.
Benedict Arnold
Fun fact: He was a brilliant American general before the betrayal. At the Saratoga Battle Monument 4 individuals are remembered. General Horatio Gates, Gnereal Philip Schuyler and Colonel Daniel Morgan have life-sized statues. Benedict Arnold is honored by a blank tribute structure.
There are 7 prominent founding fathers that did not own any slaves. These are two of them.
John adams
Samuel Adams
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Paine
John Jay
Roger Sherman
Oliver Ellsworth
This US president got a speeding ticket on a horse and buggy.
Ulysses S. Grant
English designated as the official language of the US during this year.
March 1, 2025 by President Donald Trump. Prior to this the US had no official language
This position becomes president if both the President and Vice president die.
Speaker of the House
July 2 1776, the continental congress officially declared independence from Britain. This was the cause of the 2 day delay that formalized the national holiday, Independence Day, to be July 4th.
It took Congress 2 days to agree on edits made in the declaration of independence
This Founding Father served as the first U.S. Postmaster General and later designed the first official "Join, or Die" political cartoon.
Benjamin Franklin
In what became known as the U-2 affair, this president had to admit to misleading Americans about the true nature of a plane shot down over the soviet Union.
Dwight Eisenhower
This is the president whose face in on each bill
1 dollar bill
5 dollar bill
10 dollar bill
20 dollar bill
100 dollar bill
bonus of 100 for 1, 200 for 2 or 400 for 3 (or subtract 150, 300, 600 from another team) for
2 dollar bill
50 dollar bill
5,000 dollar bill
1) George Washington
5) Abe Lincoln
10) Alexander Hamilton
20) Andrew Jackson
100) Ben Franklin
Bonus
2) Thomas Jefferson
50) Ulysses S. Grant
5,000) James Madison
The US constitution is the oldest written national constitution still in use out of any country. The only constitution older than our national constitution and still in force today is the constitution of this state.
The massachusetts Constitution of 1780 written mostly by John Adams.