States & U.S. Presidents
The first state.
What is Delaware?
The woman, known as “The Lady with the Lamp,” cared for soldiers during the Crimean War.
Who was Florence Nightingale?
These men traveled from the Mississippi River to the west coast and back from May 1804 to September 1806. They reported everything they discovered to President Thomas Jefferson.
Who were (Meriwether) Lewis and (William) Clark?
A network of routes made up of stations and conductors that worked to provide safe passage to escaping slaves.
What was the Underground Railroad?
The 2,000 mile route that began at Independence, Missouri that was followed by pioneers moving west.
What was the Oregon Trail?
The President who gave the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The Civil War ended when this general surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia.
Who was General Robert E. Lee?
He commanded the Union Army during the Civil War and accepted the surrender of the Confederacy.
Who was General Ulysses S. Grant?
The nickname given to the people who traveled to California during the gold rush.
What was a “forty-niner”?
The golden spike ceremony celebrated the completion of this project.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
The only President who was elected unanimously.
Who was George Washington?
The Mexican American War began a conflict for control of this state.
What is Texas?
The first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The time period in which many industries progressed from manual and farm labor to machine manufacturing and factory labor.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
The largest immigration station in the United States from 1892 to 1924. Nearly 12 million immigrants were processed here.
What was Ellis Island?
The most US Presidents were born in this state.
What is Virginia?
During this war, Washington D.C. was burned by the British.
What was the War of 1812?
With this invention, Alfred Nobel, made the building of roads, tunnels, and canals safer and more efficient.
What is dynamite?
The time period in which attempts were made to reunify the divided nation and integrate African American slaves into society.
What was Reconstruction?
In 1803, this deal made with France nearly doubled the size of the United States for the sum of $15 million.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The first son of a President to become President himself.
Who was John Quincy Adams?
This Civil War battle had the largest number of casualties.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
On January 29, 1886, this man applied for a patent for his “vehicle powered by a gas engine”.
Who was Karl Benz?
With her study of radioactivity, she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first and only person to win the prize in two different categories.
Who was Marie Curie?
The difficult journey that Five Civilized Tribes took during their forced removal from the southeastern US to the west in the 1830s and 1840s.
What was the Trail of Tears?