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This founding father was credited with inventing bifocals
Who was Benjamin Franklin
This many people were killed in the Boston Massacre
What is 5
This is the name of the theater where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
What is Ford's Theatre
The first people ended up on North American soil after doing this
What is walking over a land bridge between Asia and Alaska
The Pilgrims come to America in order to ___
What is start their own religious community after becoming dissatisfied with the Protestant Church in England
This was the first European to land in North America
Who was Leif Erikson (arrived from Norway in the 10th century)
4,000 members of this Native American tribe died of cold, hunger or disease on the Trail of Tears
What is Cherokee
The Salem Witch Trials took place in this present-day state
What is Massachusetts
Despite popular thought, there were no executions by this during the Salem Witch Trials
What is burning at the stake
In 2023, this "submersible," operated by the American tourism and expeditions company OceanGate, imploded during an expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic
What is the Titain
This was the first president to live in the White House
Who was John Adams
The first enslaved Africans were brought to American colonies in this year
What is 1619
This factory's fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers—123 women and girls and 23 men—who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, falling, or jumping to their deaths
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
In Boston, on rainy days, they say you can still smell this food that flooded the city at an estimated 35 miles per hour (56 kilometers per hour), killing 21 people and injuring 150 due to a faulty storage tank built by the United States Industrial Alcohol Company (USIA) all the way back in 1919
What is molasses
This was the United States' first commercial radio station
What was the KDKA in Pittsburgh
Although Betsy Ross is often credited with creating the flag, some historians believe this Continental Congress member may have been the true creator as he claimed credit for it and even sent a bill of a quarter-cask of wine to Congress for the design.
Who was Francis Hopkinson
This was the bloodiest single-day battle of American history
What was the Battle of Antietam, during the Civil War (a total of 22,654 Union and Confederate soldiers were wounded or killed.)
This is the oldest European-founded city in the United States
What is St. Augustine, Florida (founded in 1565 by Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles of Spain)
This is the name of time period in the 1730s and 1740s when colonists began embracing secular rationalism over religion
What is the Great Awakening
Juliette Gordon Low established this young women's organization in 1912
What is the Girl Scouts of the USA
Pocahontas was from here
What is the Powhatan tribal nation
After the Boston Tea Party, Great Britain punished colonists with several laws that took away Massachusetts' right to govern itself that ended up being called this
What are the Intolerable Acts (or the Coercive Acts in Great Britain)
The American Civil War is said to have started on this man's farm and ended in his parlor
Who was Wilmer McLean
Historians estimate the first humans arrived on what is now American soil this many years ago
What is 12,000 years ago
A radio adaptation of this book caused some listeners to mistake those bulletins for the real thing, causing many anxious phone calls to police, newspaper offices, and radio stations and nationwide hysteria on Halloween morning, 1938, held at the CBS building in New York City
What is War of the Worlds